Selected Poems
Published on 27. July 2012
168 pages
978-1-84777-973-1 (ISBN)
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Christina Rossetti was in a sense the first poet of the Pre-Raphelites, her Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) having been - as if by accident - the writing from that group which first caught public attention.It contains many of her best poems.Later work - devotional poems, love lyrics and descriptive pieces - extended the themes and forms of her first remarkable collection.It is remarkable, but in a quiet and intense way, not in the manner of those who seem to have learned from her among her contemporaries.Ford Madox Ford, who had a subtle ear for the unemphatic excellence of the nineteenth-century writers, called her 'the most valuable poet that the Victorian age produced'.Her modern admirers are many, especially among the poets.Philip Larkin speaks of her poetry as 'unequalled for its objective expression of happiness denied and a certain unfamiliar steely stoicism'.
In this selection C.H. Sisson presents a wide range of her work and in his biographical and critical introduction suggests fresh perspectives on it.Sisson also includes here Rossetti's long-unavailable 'Maude, A Story for Girls', which was written when she was very young and gives some indication of her cast of mind and her skills as a writer of prose fiction.The character of Maude is a severe self-portrait, wry at her own expense.As Sisson says, 'with any poet the starting-point, social as well as literary, is worth finding out about'.
In this selection C.H. Sisson presents a wide range of her work and in his biographical and critical introduction suggests fresh perspectives on it.Sisson also includes here Rossetti's long-unavailable 'Maude, A Story for Girls', which was written when she was very young and gives some indication of her cast of mind and her skills as a writer of prose fiction.The character of Maude is a severe self-portrait, wry at her own expense.As Sisson says, 'with any poet the starting-point, social as well as literary, is worth finding out about'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
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Carcanet Press Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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0,48 MB
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978-1-84777-973-1 (9781847779731)
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Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 in London and educated at home.She was associated with the Pre-Raphaelites through her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti.Her first collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) was extremely successful and this was followed by The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866) and A Pageant and Other Poems (1881).She also wrote a collection of verse for children and several essays about religion.After her death in 1894, her eldest brother, William, brought out a complete collection of her poetry. Born in Bristol in 1914, C. H. Sisson was noted as a poet, novelist, essayist and an important translator. He was a great friend of the critic and writer Donald Davie, with whom he corresponded regularly. Sisson was a student at the University of Bristol where he read English and Philosophy. As a poet he first came to light through the London Arts Review founded by the painter Patrick Swift and the poet David Wright. He reacted against the prevailing intellectual climate of the 1930s, particularly the Auden Group, preferring to go back to the anti-romantic T. E. Hulme, and to the Anglican tradition. The modernism of his poetry follows a 'distinct genealogy' from Hulme to Eliot, Pound, Ford Madox Ford and Wyndham Lewis. His novel Christopher Homm experiments with form and is told backwards. Sisson served in the British Army during World War II in India and joined the Ministry of Labour in 1936. He worked as a civil servant and wrote a standard text The Spirit of British Administration (1959) arising from his work and a comparison with other European methods. Sisson was a 'severe critic of the Civil Service and some of his essays caused controversy'. In his collection The London Zoo he writes this epitaph 'Here lies a civil servant. He was civil/ To everyone, and servant to the devil.' C. H. Sisson was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature in 1993.Carcanet publish his Collected Poems, his novels, essays, and his autobiography On the Lookout, as well as his versions of Dante, Virgil, La Fontaine, Du Bellay, Lucretius and others.
Content
Table of Contents
Introduction
Couplet
Mary Magdalene
Spring Quiet
Song
Bitter For Sweet
Three Stages
A Pause Of Thought
The End Of The First Part
3........
One Certainty
Two Pursuits
A Testimony
Song
After Death
Looking Forward
Remember
Seeking Rest
A Portrait
Endurance
Withering
Twilight Calm
Two Thoughts of Death
Is And Was
The Three Enemies
The Flesh
The World
The Devil
The Summer Is Ended
From The Antique
For Rosaline's Album
Next of Kin
A Pause
Holy Innocents
A Wish
Seasons
Ballad
From The Antique
Listening
Echo
The First Spring Day
My Dream
The Last Look
May
Old And New Year Ditties
Shut Out
A Chilly Night
In The Lane
A Bed Of Forget-Me-Nots
Love From The North
A Better Resurrection
The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness
Fata Morgana
One Day
Introspective
In The Round Tower At Jhansi
Memory
A Birthday
An Apple Gathering
Winter: My Secret
My Friend
Another Spring
Up-Hill
At Home
To-day and To-morrow
Yet A Little While
Goblin Market
L.E.L.
Spring
What Good Shall My Life Do Me?
Cousin Kate
From the Prince's Progress
Sister Maude
'No, Thank You, John'
Mirage
The Lambs of Grasmere (1860)
Wife to Husband
Promises Like Pie-Crust
The Lowest Place
Song
The Queen of Hearts
A Dumb Friend
Life and Death
Somewhere Or Other
Weary In Well-Doing
Summer
What Would I Give!
Grown and Flown
Eve
Shall I Forget?
Dead Hope
Enrica
Italia, Io Ti Saluto
A Daughter Of Eve
A Dirge
'To-day For Me'
A Christmas Carol
Yet A Little While
'I Wish I Could Remember'
'Youth Gone, And Beauty Gone'
The Key-note
He And She
A Life's Parallels
Pastime
One Sea-side Grave
'Bury Hope'
'Roses On A Brier'
'Heaven's Chimes Are Slow'
'A Cold Wind Stirs'
'Lord What Have I To Offer?
'The Fields Are White'
'Margaret Has a Milking Pail'
Maude: A Story For Girls
Introduction
Couplet
Mary Magdalene
Spring Quiet
Song
Bitter For Sweet
Three Stages
A Pause Of Thought
The End Of The First Part
3........
One Certainty
Two Pursuits
A Testimony
Song
After Death
Looking Forward
Remember
Seeking Rest
A Portrait
Endurance
Withering
Twilight Calm
Two Thoughts of Death
Is And Was
The Three Enemies
The Flesh
The World
The Devil
The Summer Is Ended
From The Antique
For Rosaline's Album
Next of Kin
A Pause
Holy Innocents
A Wish
Seasons
Ballad
From The Antique
Listening
Echo
The First Spring Day
My Dream
The Last Look
May
Old And New Year Ditties
Shut Out
A Chilly Night
In The Lane
A Bed Of Forget-Me-Nots
Love From The North
A Better Resurrection
The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness
Fata Morgana
One Day
Introspective
In The Round Tower At Jhansi
Memory
A Birthday
An Apple Gathering
Winter: My Secret
My Friend
Another Spring
Up-Hill
At Home
To-day and To-morrow
Yet A Little While
Goblin Market
L.E.L.
Spring
What Good Shall My Life Do Me?
Cousin Kate
From the Prince's Progress
Sister Maude
'No, Thank You, John'
Mirage
The Lambs of Grasmere (1860)
Wife to Husband
Promises Like Pie-Crust
The Lowest Place
Song
The Queen of Hearts
A Dumb Friend
Life and Death
Somewhere Or Other
Weary In Well-Doing
Summer
What Would I Give!
Grown and Flown
Eve
Shall I Forget?
Dead Hope
Enrica
Italia, Io Ti Saluto
A Daughter Of Eve
A Dirge
'To-day For Me'
A Christmas Carol
Yet A Little While
'I Wish I Could Remember'
'Youth Gone, And Beauty Gone'
The Key-note
He And She
A Life's Parallels
Pastime
One Sea-side Grave
'Bury Hope'
'Roses On A Brier'
'Heaven's Chimes Are Slow'
'A Cold Wind Stirs'
'Lord What Have I To Offer?
'The Fields Are White'
'Margaret Has a Milking Pail'
Maude: A Story For Girls
