Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems

Vanessa Warne (University of Manitoba)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Grace Moore (University of Otago)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1862

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poem collection

Resources

In 1861, Dante Gabriel Rossetti sent a selection of Christina Rossetti's poems to John Ruskin. The Rossettis, searching for a publisher for Christina's poems, hoped to have Ruskin's approval. Ruskin felt, however, that Christina's poems weren't fit for publication, at least not yet: “I sate up till late last night reading poems. They are full of beauty and power. But no publisher—I am deeply grieved to know this—would take them, so full are they of quaintnesses and offences” (qtd. in R.A. Bellas, Christina Rossetti, 32). Ruskin sent Dante Gabriel the following advice: “your sister should exercise herself in the severest commonplace of meter until she can write as the public like. Then if she puts in her observation and p…

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Citation: Warne, Vanessa. "Goblin Market and Other Poems". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 May 2004 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4952, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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