Free Audiobook: Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti

Meet your next audiobook: Goblin Market and Other Poems written by Christina Rossetti. A solid pick in Poetry.

Among other works included in this choice collection are “The Convent Threshold,” “Up-hill,” “Cousin Kate,” ” My Secret,” An important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) wrote some of the most beautiful and voluptuous poetry in the English language. Like Emily Dickinson, she lived in self-imposed isolation, writing of God and lost love with a sensuality and passion that seemed to emanate from the soul. This edition of 53 works combines a number of her best-known sonnets, ballads, and shorter lyrics with her long masterpiece, the narrative fable Goblin Market . A lingering fairy tale in verse, Goblin Market was once labeled a children’s poem, yet its intricate symbolism and themes of temptation, sin, and redemption mark it for an adult audience.

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