Christina Rossetti is one of the great Victorian poets. Best known for her poems 'Goblin Market' and 'In the bleak midwinter', she is also the author of a wide range of other poems, nursery rhymes, short stories, and devotional prose, the best of which is selected here.
This is the fullest one-volume edition of Rossetti's writings, in which published and unpublished poems are brought together in one chronological sequence in order to show Rossetti's poetic development.
Includes the fullest selection of Rossetti's devotional prose alongside four complete short stories, including 'Maude'.
Contains the fullest and most helpful annotation of any edition.
Introduction places Rossetti in her historical and literary contexts, discusses the main critical approaches to her work, and its religious influences.
Includes facsimile frontispiece and title-page to 'Goblin Market'
