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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.
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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) was one of the most important of English woman poets, who was the sister of the painter-poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and a member of the Pre-Raphaelite art movement. 'A Birthday,' 'When I Am Dead,' and 'Up-Hill' are probably Rossetti's best-known single works.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Good collection of Christina Rossetti poems in this book. Best known for her fantasy poem 'Goblin Market' this collection offers up more of her work. Some of Rossetti's poems are rather dark and gloomy but so atmospheric! Her religious devotion is very obvious throughout her poetry. This book also has a good introduction and gives a lot of information about Rossetti, her life and works.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I used this book for coursework during my A2 studies and I really enjoyed using it, the poetry in it contained most of Rossetti's best work and it was a pleasure to read. It contained all the big well known poems and some less well known ones too.
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Superb paperback, but crippled Kindle edition
19 Aug 2010
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This Kindle book is handsomely formatted, and is (certainly for the money) the most comprehensive collection of Christina Rossetti poems currently available on Kindle. [Another Kindle option is Goblin Market and Other Poems (Trillium Classics), which while nicely formatted for Kindle, contains less than 50 (mainly early) poems and lacks explanatory Notes.] Unfortunately, whereas when you download Selected Poems: Rossetti it APPEARS at first glance to be a fully functioning item, clicking on underlined poems in Contents simply bounces you right back to the initial poem in the book!
I have contacted KINDLE, which has attempted to notify the publisher of this problem. Let's hope for a quick fix! When that happens, then the only drawback (for some readers) of this Kindle book, as far as I can tell, might be less copious supportive documentation, and absence of selected short stories and letters, which are both included in the Oxford World Classics paperback edition Poems and Prose (Oxford World's Classics)
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ADDENDUM (in response to the 29 September 2010 critical Comment by "Reader"): Having initially reviewed the Kindle edition of this book Selected Poems: Rossetti above, Amazon will not permit me to separately review the paperback edition Selected Poems (Penguin Classics). N.B.: So let me reiterate that the paperback is fine, as are The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) and Poems and Prose (Oxford World's Classics), the latter book having been referred to in my original review above.
The bottom line is this: If you want a handsome selective compilation of Christina Rossetti's poems, go with Selected Poems (Penguin Classics), but make sure that the crippled formatting of the Kindle edition Selected Poems: Rossetti has been fixed before springing $9.99 for this electronic version. (This is hard to accomplish without first purchasing, and then returning, the defective Kindle book.) However, if you want to also dip into Rossetti's prose (e.g., short stories, letters, and essays), then purchase Poems and Prose (Oxford World's Classics). My favorite POETRY collection is the 1,312-page The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics), which has the bonus of including Rossetti's unpublished poems, such as the incomparable "Of My Life" (p. 830): Check it out by typing "I weary of my life Thro' the long sultry day" in the Search Inside This Book box. All three books have excellent explanatory Notes.
I have contacted KINDLE, which has attempted to notify the publisher of this problem. Let's hope for a quick fix! When that happens, then the only drawback (for some readers) of this Kindle book, as far as I can tell, might be less copious supportive documentation, and absence of selected short stories and letters, which are both included in the Oxford World Classics paperback edition Poems and Prose (Oxford World's Classics)
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ADDENDUM (in response to the 29 September 2010 critical Comment by "Reader"): Having initially reviewed the Kindle edition of this book Selected Poems: Rossetti above, Amazon will not permit me to separately review the paperback edition Selected Poems (Penguin Classics). N.B.: So let me reiterate that the paperback is fine, as are The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) and Poems and Prose (Oxford World's Classics), the latter book having been referred to in my original review above.
The bottom line is this: If you want a handsome selective compilation of Christina Rossetti's poems, go with Selected Poems (Penguin Classics), but make sure that the crippled formatting of the Kindle edition Selected Poems: Rossetti has been fixed before springing $9.99 for this electronic version. (This is hard to accomplish without first purchasing, and then returning, the defective Kindle book.) However, if you want to also dip into Rossetti's prose (e.g., short stories, letters, and essays), then purchase Poems and Prose (Oxford World's Classics). My favorite POETRY collection is the 1,312-page The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics), which has the bonus of including Rossetti's unpublished poems, such as the incomparable "Of My Life" (p. 830): Check it out by typing "I weary of my life Thro' the long sultry day" in the Search Inside This Book box. All three books have excellent explanatory Notes.
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