Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The 19th century British poet Christina ...

This week's choice is an extract: lines 408–446 from Christina Rossetti's lavishly sensuous masterpiece, Goblin Market. Often read as a poem of renunciation – as perhaps all Rossetti's poems ...

goblin-inhabited world with entrancing imagery. Based on a Christina Rossetti poem with the same namesake, the play follows two grown Victorian sisters who are magically transported back to their ...

Her poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feeling and Goblin Market and Other Poems, published in 1862 is Rossetti's best-known work. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice ...

This aspect of goblin lore is represented in Christina Rossetti’s 1862 poem Goblin Market: One had a cat’s face, one whisked a tail, one tramped at a rat’s pace, one crawled like a snail.

The collection's first poem "Goblin" addresses these Saturn and child situations: "the children are supposed / to die. In some stories / they do. In others they / survive but must kill." ...

‘Goblin Market’ was the title poem of Christina Rossetti’s first collection, published in 1862, and while she disclaimed any allegorical purpose in it, modern readers have found it hard to resist ...

the Dragon Who Hates Poetry. He is currently performing the follow-up, Spark, the Goblin Wizard. How did you get into poetry and performing? I really liked poetry at school; I had brilliant ...