In the Bleak Midwinter
Christina Rossetti’s frozen Christmas poem is stranger and bleaker than Holst’s tune lets on. A close reading of the world that refuses to receive.
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4 poems
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Goblin Market
Rossetti’s narrative poem of temptation and sisterly sacrifice, where desire, commerce, and redemption collide in richly musical Victorian verse.
Remember
It sounds like “remember me forever.” But Rossetti’s sonnet talks itself out of the demand, ending by preferring that you forget and smile than remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti
One of the finest lyric poets of the Victorian age: from the eerie fairy tale of “Goblin Market” to the carol “In the Bleak Midwinter,” Rossetti wove faith, love, and renunciation into unforgettable verse.