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    Goblin Market

    By Christina Rossetti and Arthur Rackham

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    This lovely gift edition of Christina Rossetti's most famous poem will enchant readers of all ages. For children, the story offers a captivating adventure into a land of fantasy. For adults, it's a lyric and sensual allegory of temptation, sacrifice, and salvation. Arthur Rackham, a peerless illustrator of fairy tales and supernatural creatures, portrays the poem's otherworldly attractions in four color and 20 black-and-white images plus a reproduction of a rare watercolor.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateDec 19, 2012
    ISBN9780486132006
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    Christina Rossetti

    Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 in London. She was the youngest child in a creative Italian family, which included her famous brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their father, a poet and political exile from Italy, fell ill when Rossetti was a teenager and the family suffered financial difficulty. Rossetti started writing at a young age and her poems were often influenced by her religious faith. She published various poems in literary magazines, but it was Goblin Market & Other Poems, published in 1862 to great acclaim, that established her position as a prominent poet. She became ill towards the end of her life, first from Graves’ disease and then from cancer, but she continued to write until her death in 1894.

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    • 4/5
      Christina Rossetti was the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Dante Rossetti was one of the first artists who began the Pre-Raphaelite artistic movement. Christina's Goblin Market was published in 1862. This is a tale of two sisters, one strong in character, the other prone to follow her desires.When they come upon the Goblins in the brookside rushes, both listen to the Goblins who call for the ladies to buy their fruit. In rhyming fashion, they tell of fresh, lushion, wild, rare and ripe fruit that is sweet to the tongue and sound to the eye. Laura cannot resist the Goblin men and their luscious fruit. Depicted as ugly rat like men who crawl like a snail and are creatures who sound kind and full of love. As Laura becomes satiated with the juicy fruits, her sister Lizzie runs toward home. Returning, Laura tells her sister she ate and ate her fill and longs to buy more. Now, she learns that she cannot live without the fruit of the goblins. When she appeared at death's door, brave Lizzie finds the goblins and though the temptation is near overwhelming, she does not yield to the hugs and kisses and lusciousness of their wares.As the goblins now scratch, grunt and snarl, looking evil tore her clothes and squeezed the fruit against her. When she arrived home, telling Laura to partake of the juice f the fruit so that she may be saved, Laura is healed.This tale is explained in Victorian time when women were to be exceedingly chase. Thus, by partaking of the fruit and the Goblins, Laura is no longer pure. In the end, she is not saved by men, but by a woman -- her sister.
    • 4/5
      Another classic that I hadn't read for many, many years. While generally I appreciate authors who are loath to have their work read as allegory, this is too clear to be denied. The message I get out of this? "While men may be very tempting, it's generally safer to have sex with other women before marriage (Although the men won't think much of that plan)."
    • 5/5
      I love this poem. The goblin men always make me sad, constructed as monstrous because of the danger that lay in sexual temptation for women in this period. But, I love the relationship between the sisters, and I love that Lizzie goes down to face the goblin men, and temptation, to save her sister. It is, of course, a narrative of self denial and self sacrifice. But it is also a story about the strength of the relationship between two women, not one of competition, or destruction, but one of love and solidarity in a hard world.

      Perhaps the truly shocking part of this poem is that Lizzie is able to save Laura. Often these narratives end with the "wicked" woman going insane or dying, despite effort made to 'save' her.

      For anyone interesting, Laini Taylor has a book called "Lips Touch Three Times," and the first of the three novellas is a re-telling of Rossetti's poem.
    • 5/5
      I love this poem. The goblin men always make me sad, constructed as monstrous because of the danger that lay in sexual temptation for women in this period. But, I love the relationship between the sisters, and I love that Lizzie goes down to face the goblin men, and temptation, to save her sister. It is, of course, a narrative of self denial and self sacrifice. But it is also a story about the strength of the relationship between two women, not one of competition, or destruction, but one of love and solidarity in a hard world.

      Perhaps the truly shocking part of this poem is that Lizzie is able to save Laura. Often these narratives end with the "wicked" woman going insane or dying, despite effort made to 'save' her.

      For anyone interesting, Laini Taylor has a book called "Lips Touch Three Times," and the first of the three novellas is a re-telling of Rossetti's poem.
    • 4/5
      The fairy-tale like title poem of 2 sisters, one of whom is tempted by the goblin market and eats their food, and the other sister who risks the same to save her life is beautiful.
    • 5/5
      I do get around to almost every book recommended to me. It might take me a year, but I will get there. So, thanks El! This poem was a ton of fun! I especially liked the part where the nubile young woman sucks nectar off her sister's neck. I was all, "Aw yeah! High five!" But I was alone, so I had to high five myself. It's less depressing than it sounds. No it's not.

      It's a weird, wicked poem. The meter and rhyme scheme are schizophrenic; I tried to track it for a while, but you actually can't. Rosetti has no intention of being consistent. That adds to the creepy feel of the poem, as you're constantly off balance. I'm not sure what the goblin fruit represents. Addiction? Marriage? Lesbian incest? I think, like most of the best poems, it can mean whatever you like to think it means.

      Dope stuff, yo.
    • 5/5
      Possibly one of my all-time top five Victorian poems. The mythopoeic sexual violence of it. The feminist cri de coeur. The dreamy feyness of the goblin men, and their ghostly song and he promise of fruits unattainable by other means (I think of that (male) stripper in the Thriller jacket who drugged me on Koh Phangan). The rhyme scheme, and the way it fractures, unravels, thaws into a dew, and then resolves and reforms and returns.
    • 5/5
      Probably my favorite poet,( though I'm rather fond of Byron too)Any goth worth her salt should be familiar with Christina Rosetti, she's so dark and melancholy and yet there's something very innocent and even hopeful in her verses- it's beyond beautiful.
    • 5/5
       -mysterious, deep, funny and sad, new every time I read it