| Description |
1 online resource (xlii, 509 pages) |
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Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
Contents; Introduction; Chronology; Note on the Text; POEMS AND PROSE; By Way of Remembrance; The German-French Campaign 1870-1871; A Christmas Carol; Venus's Looking-Glass; Love Lies Bleeding; A Bride Song; A Rose Plant in Jericho; [Dedicatory Sonnet of A Pageant and Other Poems (1881)]; The Key-Note; Pastime; 'Italia, Io Ti Saluto!'; Mirrors of Life and Death; A Ballad of Boding; Yet a Little While; He and She; Monna Innominata; 'Luscious and Sorrowful'; 'Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious'; Touching 'Never'; A Life's Parallels; Golden Silences; In the Willow Shade |
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'One Foot on Sea, and One on Shore'An October Garden; 'Summer is Ended'; Passing and Glassing; The Thread of Life; An Old-World Thicket; Later Life: a Double Sonnet of Sonnets; 'Behold the Man!'; Resurgam; A Valentine; Birchington Churchyard; 'A Helpmeet for Him'; An Echo from Willowwood; ('Thy fainting spouse, yet still Thy spouse'); 'Son, Remember'; ('Sleeping at last, the trouble & tumult over'); STORIES; DEVOTIONAL PROSE; LETTERS; Notes; Further Reading; Index of Ti |
| Summary |
This edition brings together the fullest range of Rossetti's poetry and prose in one volume, including 'Goblin Market', stories (the complete text of Maude), devotional prose, and personal letters. The poetry is arranged in a single chronological sequence to show Rossetti's poetic development. - ;'The mystery of Life, the mystery. Of Death, I see. Darkly as in a glass ... '. Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the world's beauty, but fears that it may be deceptive, even deadly. She is a religious poet, but much of her work is |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Humphries, Simon, 1963-
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| ISBN |
9780192807151 |
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0192807153 |
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0191539740 |
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9780191539749 |
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1281975664 |
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9781281975669 |
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9786611975661 |
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6611975667 |
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