Textbook Stuff: Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems

'A poet not of thought or ideas but of emotions' - Michael SchmidtChristina Rosetti wrote poetry from the age of seven. The publication of her most famous collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), made her a household name and secured her status alongside Elizabeth Barrett Browning as one of the most influential female voices in nineteenth-century poetry. POEMS: A Better Resurrection * A Birthday * A Royal Princess * At Home * Cousin Kate * Despised and Rejected * Echo * Good Friday * In The Bleak Midwinter * Jessie Cameron * Maude Clare * Remember * Shut Out * Song [‘When I am dead’] * Summer Is Ended * The Convent Threshold * The Lowest Place * To Lalla, reading my verses topsy-turvy * Twice * Up-Hill * Winter: My Secret