ROSSETTI, Christina.

£3,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Goblin Market and Other Poems. First edition of Rossetti's first book of poems, "universally praised by reviewers as the herald of a new voice and an original talent" (ODNB), with two illustrations by her brother Dante Gabriel.Written in 1859, Rossetti's dark, fantastical poem of temptation and devotion has been variously interpreted as a feminist tract, a capitalist critique, an allegory for drug addiction, and a children's story. "In the twentieth century a great interest has been taken in Freudian interpretations of poems such as Goblin Market, and Rossetti's work, which was previously admired for its innocence and artlessness, has become a hunting-ground for critics and biographers; enlisted as a symbol of repressed female genius, she has had her work scanned for tropes of starvation and sexual guilt" (ODNB).

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