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020			_a9780140424690
082			_a821.8 _bROS
100			_aRossetti, Christina
245			_aSelected poems
260			_bPenguin Books, _aLondon : _c2008
300			_axlii, 262 p. ; _c20 cm.
365			_b1350.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aPenguin Classics
520			_aThe poems selected in this volume display the extraordinary talent of Christina Rossetti, showing her to be one of the nineteenth centurys most important English poets. Here, ordinary and magical worlds collide as humans speak to God, poets speak to their muses and hope battles against despair. Devotional poems such as 'St. Peter' and 'Out of the deep' describe Rossetti's profound religious faith, while in 'A Christmas carol' and 'At last' she offers herself to God. Works such as 'Hope in grief' show optimism in the face of loss, and 'Mariano', 'Heart's chill between', L.E.L.' and 'Twice' are among many meditations on the bittersweet nature of love. This volume also includes the ... fantasy 'Goblin market', in which the mundane act of shopping becomes rife with fairy-tale enchantment and menace.
650			_aEnglish poetry
650			_a19th century
700			_aDinah Roe _eed.
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