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'Remember me when I am gone away,Gone far away into the silent land'The poems in this volume display the extraordinary talent of Christina Rossetti, one of the nineteenth century's most important English poets. Here, ordinary and magical worlds collide as humans speak to God, poets speak to their muses and hope battles against despair. Devotional poems such as 'St. Peter' and 'Out of the Deep' describe Rossetti's profound religious faith, while 'Mariana', 'Heart's Chill Between' and 'Twice' are among many meditations on the bittersweet nature of love. This volume also includes the seminal, bewitching fantasy 'Goblin Market', rife with fairy-tale enchantment and menace.Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Dinah Roe

The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats and Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite poetry 'etherialized sensation' (in the words of Antony Harrison), and popularized the notion ofl'art pour l'art - art for art's sake. Where Victorian realist novels explored the grit and grime of the Industrial Revolution, Pre-Raphaelite poems concentrated on more abstract themes of romantic love, artistic inspiration and sexuality. Later they attracted Aesthetes and Decadents like Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Ernest Dowson, not to mention Gerard Manley Hopkins and W.B. Yeats.

'Remember me when I am gone away,Gone far away into the silent land'The poems in this volume display the extraordinary talent of Christina Rossetti, one of the nineteenth century's most important English poets. Here, ordinary and magical worlds collide as humans speak to God, poets speak to their muses and hope battles against despair. Devotional poems such as 'St. Peter' and 'Out of the Deep' describe Rossetti's profound religious faith, while 'Mariana', 'Heart's Chill Between' and 'Twice' are among many meditations on the bittersweet nature of love. This volume also includes the seminal, bewitching fantasy 'Goblin Market', rife with fairy-tale enchantment and menace.Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Dinah Roe