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A full text edition of the poems of Christina Rossetti chosen by OCR for their A Level syllabus, together with line-by-line readings of each poem. The edition is suitable for A Level as well and undergraduate study at University level.
Complete revision guide for Christina Rossetti's Selected Poems for the OCR AS and A Level specification. 91 pages including:For each poem:Complete interpretive analysis of themes and ideasComprehensive analysis of language, structure and verse formContext of the poemCritical viewpointsConnections across the collectionPLUS:The full text of each poemKey social and historical contexts, and how to apply it to the poemsAssessment objectives and how to meet themGlossary of relevant literary termsContains detailed analysis for: A Birthday; Echo; From the Antique; Goblin Market; Good Friday; In the Round Tower at Jhansi; Maude Clare; No Thank You John; Remember; Shut Out; Soeur Louise de la Misericorde; Song: When I am Dead; Twice; Uphill; Winter: My Secret.
This new selection of Rossetti's poems brings together works by one of the most significant nineteenth-century English poets. It includes an illuminating introduction, a chronology of Rossetti's life and works, and explanatory notes.
Christina Rossetti was in a sense the first poet of the Pre-Raphelites, her Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) having been - as if by accident - the writing from that group which first caught public attention. 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 contemporaries. Ford Madox Ford, who had a subtle ear for the unemphatic excellence of the nineteenth-century writers, called her 'the most valuable poet that the Victorian age produced'. Her modern admirers are many, especially among the poets. Philip Larkin speaks of her poetry as 'unequalled for its objective expression of happiness denied and a certain unfamiliar steely stoicism'. 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. Sisson also includes here Rossetti's long-unavailable 'Maude, A Story for Girls', which was written when she was very young and gives some indication of her cast of mind and her skills as a writer of prose fiction. The character of Maude is a severe self-portrait, wry at her own expense. As Sisson says, 'with any poet the starting-point, social as well as literary, is worth finding out about'.
Though she was largely overshadowed by her male contemporaries, Christina Rosetti is now considered one of the most important poets of the Victorian era. This volume of selected works contains a wide range of her most important poems plus an early prose work Maude, A Story for Girls.
Since C.H. Sisson's ground-breaking Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1984), Christina Rossetti's readership has burgeoned. Almost a century ago Ford Madox Ford claimed her as 'the most valuable poet that the Victorian age produced', and - as Valentine Cunningham recently declared - she now sits at top table with Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Barrett Browning. Feminist and queer scholars have since laid claim to Rossetti; but her Anglo-Catholic faith was never incidental to the power of even her most secular poems and is at the heart of her imaginative work. As an Anglican priest and poet, Rachel Mann in her selection appreciates Rossetti's ambition while attending, too, to recent scholarship that focuses on the religious, feminist and fantastical elements in her work.
One of a series designed to provide an accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each title includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and contexts.
This new study focuses on the critically neglected area of Rossetti's devotional poetry and her prose, offering a critical intervention in the feminist construction of an important Victorian woman poet.
Excerpt from Selected Poems of Christina G. Rossetti Of Miss Rossetti's poetry, her brother's admirable edition presents four hundred and fifty-eight double-column pages - some twenty thousand verses. The editor's pleasant task has been to select six thousand lines, approximately one-fourth, with capital reference to young readers. That the selection will be generally satisfactory he cannot hope when it is somewhat unsatisfactory to himself. Unlike most poets, Miss Rossetti is almost uniformly excellent. She does not particularly need suppression nor exploitation. Open where you will, and you shall have artistic work. Often the aim in view will direct alone choice of this or rejection of that poem. The personal equation is sometimes only an expression of individual taste. In this edition her cheerful poems have been preferred as most suitable to the supremely important period of adolescence. Inasmuch as Miss Rossetti is little known even to the lover of poetry, and inasmuch as her eminence is scarcely appreciated afar off by the public, it is deemed preferable to give such variorum criticism by men and women who speak authoritatively as shall lead the student to rely the more strongly upon his own favorable judgments. That this superb woman is a poet any. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
