Author: Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 (Keywords)

Christina Rossetti was in a sense the first poet of the Pre-Raphelites. In this selection C.H. Sisson, presents a wide range of her work and in his biographical and critical introduction suggests fresh perspectives on it.

Based on the words of Christina Rossetti's poem 'In the Bleak Midwinter', this picture book is intended to remind readers of the true meaning of Christmas.

Celebrate the huge range and diversity of 'Penguin Classics', with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stori...

'Goblin Market and Other Poems' was Christina Rossetti's first full volume of poetry, published in 1862. The collection received widespread critical praise and established Rossetti as the foremost female poet of her time.

Christina Rossetti's poems could not have been more timely and necessary during the aesthetic movement. While her brother Dante Gabriel was pioneering the Pre-Raphaelite movement, she was publishing hugely successful and widely adored romantic and devotional poems. Her religious devotion colours ...

This new selection of Rossetti's poems brings together works by one of the most significant 19th-century English poets. It includes an introduction, a chronology of Rossetti's life and works, and explanatory notes.

It contains many of her best poems. Later work - devotional poems, love lyrics and descriptive pieces - extended the themes and forms of her first remarkable collection. It is remarkable, but in a quiet and intense way, not in the manner of those who seem to have learned from her among her contem...