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 Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti
 Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti ... published 1994-08 by Dover Publications Inc.Newest Review: ... and gives to them. She tastes the fruit, and it's delicious, so delicious that she craves more, but having eaten it, she no ... more ... longer hears the goblins voices luring her to buy. She enters a slow decline, and her sister struggles to come up with a plan to save her. Can she do it in time, and at what price to herself?
It sounds like the plotline of some wonderful fantasy story - and in essence, that is what Goblin Market, the main feature poem of this book is , simply a wonderful wondeful fairytale, written in rhyming verse that skips along at a pace that keeps you interested . Richly detailed and descriptive, it is a little old fashioned in ...more |
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Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti: When I am dead my dearest ........ (839 words)
by - written on 03/10/09 (Very useful, 97 readings)
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I love charity shops, and it was in a charity shop that I found a small, rather battered, clearly quite old and tatty book, the edges coated in gold. I opened it up, curious, as the cover gave no indication of the contents, to see a colourful watercolour illustration of two girls sitting by a stream, and the words 'Goblin Market'. This book is a selection of poems by Christina Rossett (1830-1894)i. I'm a poetry fan anyway, and had had a little bit of experience with one poem of particular of Rossettis in my youth as a church choirgirl - 'In the bleak midwinter' , a wonderful christmas carol, has lyrics written by her. Keen to read a little more of ... Read the complete review
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