This collection also includes 'Up-hill', an allegorical dialogue on life and death and 'Maude Clare', a ballad of a woman scorned. The title poem 'Goblin Market' is arguably her most famous, a fairy tale entwining themes of sisterhood, temptation and sexuality. Tennyson, Hopkins and Swinburne all admired her work. It was published in her first volume of poetry, Goblin Market and Other Poems, in 1863. The collection received widespread critical praise and established Rossetti as the foremost female poet of her time. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (1830 1894) is the best known poem by this Victorian-era British poet. Goblin Market and Other Poems was Christina Rossetti's first full volume of poetry, published in 1862. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published.

Goblin market full poem