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Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children''s poems. She is famous for writing Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.Christina Rossetti was born in Charlotte Street (now 105 Hallam Street), London, to Gabriele Rossetti, a painter and a political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo, and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron''s friend and physician, John William Polidori. She had two brothers and a sister: Dante became an influential artist and poet, and William and Maria both became writers. Christina, the youngest, was a lively child. She dictated her first story to her mother before she had learned to write. Rossetti was educated at home by her mother and father, who had her study religious works, classics, fairy tales and novels. Rossetti delighted in the works of Keats, Scott, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. The influence of the work of Dante Alighieri, Petrarch and other Italian writers filled the home and would have a deep impact on Rossetti''s later writing. Their home was open to visiting Italian scholars, artists and revolutionaries. The family homes in Bloomsbury at 38 and later 50 Charlotte Street were within easy reach of Madam Tussauds, London Zoo and the newly opened Regent''s Park, which she visited regularly; in contrast to her parents, Rossetti was very much a London child, and, it seems, a happy one.In the 1840s, her family faced severe financial difficulties due to the deterioration of her father''s physical and mental health. In 1843, he was diagnosed with persistent bronchitis, possibly tuberculosis, and faced losing his sight. He gave up his teaching post at King''s College and though he lived another 11 years, he suffered from depression and was never physically well again. Rossetti''s mother began teaching to keep the family out of poverty and Maria became a live-in governess, a prospect that Christina Rossetti dreaded. At this time her brother William was working for the Excise Office and Gabriel was at art school, leaving Christina''s life at home to become one of increasing isolation. When she was 14, Rossetti suffered a nervous breakdown and left school. Bouts of depression and related illness followed. During this period she, her mother, and her sister became deeply interested in the Anglo-Catholic movement that developed in the Church of England. Religious devotion came to play a major role in Rossetti''s life.

Newbery Award honoree Ashley Bryan has hand-selected a collection of celebrated English poet Christina Rossetti’s poems to illustrate with his inimitable flourish. The world changes so quickly, but the joy and fun of being a child always remains. Christina Rossetti’s classic nursery rhymes have embodied the simple essence of childhood for centuries, and now award-winning illustrator Ashley Bryan brings new life to them with this wonderfully illustrated selection of Rossetti’s poetry. Bryan’s bright and intricate collage art perfectly complement Rossetti’s simple text, and together they create a vibrant book for both kids—and kids at heart.

This luxurious hardcover compilation unites two volumes, Goblin Market and Other Poems and Shorter Poems, in a single beautifully illustrated book. Includes numerous Pre-Raphaelite-style drawings and full-color paintings by Florence Harrison.

The Prince''s Progress, and other poems By Christina Rossetti 47 Classic Rossetti Poems Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children''s poems. She is famous for writing Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter. lthough Rossetti''s popularity during her lifetime did not approach that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, her standing remained strong after her death. In the early 20th century Rossetti''s popularity faded in the wake of Modernism. Scholars began to explore Freudian themes in her work, such as religious and sexual repression, reaching for personal, biographical interpretations of her poetry. In the 1970s academics began to critique her work again, looking beyond the lyrical Romantic sweetness to her mastery of prosody and versification. Feminists held her as symbol of constrained female genius, placed as a leader of 19th-century poets. Her work strongly influenced the work of such writers as Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Jennings, and Philip Larkin. Critic Basil de Selincourt stated that she was "all but our greatest woman poet ... incomparably our greatest craftswoman ... probably in the first twelve of the masters of English verse." Till all sweet gums and juices flow, Till the blossom of blossoms blow, The long hours go and come and go, The bride she sleepeth, waketh, sleepeth, Waiting for one whose coming is slow: - Hark! the bride weepeth. ''How long shall I wait, come heat come rime?'' - ''Till the strong Prince comes, who must come in time'' (Her women say), ''there''s a mountain to climb, A river to ford. Sleep, dream and sleep; Sleep'' (they say): ''we''ve muffled the chime, Better dream than weep.''

The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature''s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical and fictional works of Christina Rossetti, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (4MB Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Rossetti''s life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Features Dante Gabirel Rossettis accompanying illustrations to GOBLIN MARKET * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Rossetti''s complete short stories and her rare novella MAUDE, appearing for the first time in digital print * Features a bonus biography by the Pre-Raphaelite expert Theodore Watts-Dunton - discover Rossetti''s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse our range of exciting titles Contents: The Poetry Collections Verses, 1847 Goblin Market and Other Poems The Princes Progress and Other Poems Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book A Pageant and Other Poems Verses, 1893 Some Feasts and Fasts Gifts and Graces The World: Self-Destruction Divers worlds:time and Eternity New Jerusalem and Its Citizens Songs for Strangers and Pilgrims Privately Published Poems Unpublished Poems The Poems List of Poems In Chronological Order List of Poems In Alphabetical Order The Fiction Commonplace and Other Stories Maude: A Story for Girls The Biography Christina Georgina Rossetti by Theodore Watts-Dunton Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse our other titles

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you''ll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. Henry, Lucy Maud Montgomery, E. T. A. Hoffmann, L. Frank Baum, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, Oscar Wilde, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anton Chekhov and many more! · Poems, carols and songs from John Milton, Clement Clarke Moore, William Blake, W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, George MacDonald, Emily Dickinson and many more!