By Christina Rosetti

Goblin Market and Selected Poems:

Goblin Market is the story of two sisters and their sin, temptation, punishment and redemption. Written in Christina Rosetti’s characteristically song like poetry, it is, like Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, easily passed over as a fable or fairy story.  But the sexual undertones of the temptation posed to the girls by the wildly lascivious ‘goblins’, the hints of a challenge to the role of women in Rosetti’s society, and the ever present undertow of Christian evangelism all combine to create a surprisingly complex piece of work.

This collection also includes some of Rosetti’s best known poems - there is one of the most widely loved pieces of poetry in the English language, In the Bleak Mid Winter, there is The Prince’s Progress, De Profundis, Up Hill and The Convent Threshold along with over fifty other of her most soulful and lyrical poems.