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Christina Rossetti, from "Echo", The Complete Poems
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“Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti PNGs.
(1. Pendant with lock of hair, 2. Sculpture by Carrianne Hendrickson, 3. Plum, 4. Fig with jewels, 5. “The Kiss” by Joseph Granie, 6. Pocket-sized edition of Goblin Market, 7. Fruit basket, 8. Vintage papier-mâché masks)
#png#pngs#transparent#moodboard#artboard#imageboard#goblin market#christina rossetti#literature#request
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Christina Rossetti, “The Thread Of Life.”
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It’s Fine Press Friday!
Today we’re leaning into the drama with a 1910 edition of Poems from notorious bohemian and (unofficial) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) member Christina Rossetti (1830-1894). This vellum covered, gilt stamped, 369-page tome was printed on Unbleached Arnold paper by the Villafield Press in Glasgow and published in limited run of 350 copies in London by Blackie & Son under the art direction of Talwin Morris. It features a praiseful yet cutting introduction from fellow poet, critic, and suffragist Alice Meynell (1847-1922) along with a wealth of illustrations (70 plates) by Florence Harrison (1877–1955) , an Australian illustrator of poetry and children’s books who worked extensively with Blackie & Son. Harrison’s style was inspired by the Romantic Era and the nature-worshipping, hedonistic values of the Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite movements of the time. Fittingly, she also illustrated the works of fellow PRB poets William Morris (1834-1896) and Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892).
While many of the poems included are overtly devotional and express themes of purity, motifs of romantic love, limerence, melancholy, and death permeate the mood of the text as a whole. The Rossetti family, particularly Christina’s brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) (poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and co-founder of the PRB) and Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862) (artist, iconic art model, poet, and Dante’s longtime partner, muse, and eventual wife), are known for their exploits, excesses, creative legacy and influence on the culture of the era. Christina published her first poem at only 16, and Siddal posed for Millais's Ophelia at 19. The radical, passionate nature of the philosophies and lifestyle they embodied was as much a product of the intensity and privilege of their youth as of the Renaissance ideals and Victorian mores they rebelled against.
For a deeper dive on the Rossettis and their generation, check out this recent exhibition at the Tate Modern.
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--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern
#pre raphaelite#Christina Rossetti#Villafield Press#Blackie and Son#Blackie & Son#Dante Gabriel Rossetti#Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood#Romanticism#poetry#fine press#Unbleached Arnold paper#Alice Meynell#Florence Harrison#Elizabeth Siddal#limerence#bohemian#Talwin Morris#fine press fridays#Ana
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Echo
by Christina Rossetti
Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.
Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,
Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
Where souls brimfull of love abide and meet;
Where thirsting longing eyes
Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more.
Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live
My very life again tho’ cold in death:
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
Speak low, lean low,
As long ago, my love, how long ago.
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Christina Rossetti, from poems and prose; "maiden song"
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I hang my harp upon a tree,
A weeping willow in a lake;
(...)
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Christina Rossetti, from Mirage in “The Complete Poems Of Christina Rossetti”
#poetry#christina rossetti#mirage#the complete poems of christina rossetti#literature#poem#lit#from my collection#fave
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“Come buy from us with a golden curl” (extract from the GOBLIN MARKET by Christina Rossetti)
1914
Artist : Hilda Hechle
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Me too, Christina, me too...
(Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti in a tantrum and destroying the contents of a room)
#this is a humorous sketch#but she was actually known to throw spectacular tantrums as a girl#and considered herself to have quite a temper throughout her life#my post#christina rossetti#victorian#poets#dante gabriel rossetti
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@all-you-had-to-do-was-neigh
Others parts in my 'narrative poems' tag.
The second poll is almost ready but I take suggestions for the third !
Other poems in my 'poetry' tags (Frost, Angelou, British Romanticism so far, French poetry next).
Good luck making a pick. There are quite a few of my favorites here.
Aurora Leigh
The Ballad of the Harp Weaver
The Highwayman
Metamorphoses
Goblin Market
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Iliad
Beowulf
The Epic of Gilgamesh
#polls#narrative poems#poetry#aurora leigh#elizabeth barrett browning#the ballad of the harp weaver#edna st vincent millay#the highwayman#alfred noyes#metamorphoses#ovid#goblin market#christina rossetti#la belle dame sans merci#john keats#iliad#homer#beowulf#the epic of gilgamesh
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I just read “the goblin market” for class and it was giving me major tlt vibes. Two blonde sisters who could be twins and one saves the other by having her “eat” her and it was kinda gay and incestuous and religious
#the goblin market#christina rossetti#the locked tomb#tlt#ianthe tridentarius#coronabeth tridentarius
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Christina Rossetti, from "Bird Raptures"
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as a continuation to my unofficial series of posts i sometimes call "everyone in the literary scene (& all influential people in general) used to be related or know each other & it led to some really weird coincidences"
john polidori was a writer and the assistant of the famous byron who was in a long relationship with teresa gamba, who was married to the much older count guiccioli; & earlier, john polidori's father gaetano polidori had been a writer and the assistant of the famous alfieri, who had been friends with that same count guiccioli! many have written about the similarities between byron & alfieri — & knowing byron's love for symbolism etc., it's likely that polidori's father's service to alfieri was one of the things to inspire him to place john in his service.
and then through his sisters marriage, john polidori was the (posthumous) uncle of writer christina rossetti and writer/artist dante gabriel rossetti. john's father gaetano published the first works of his rossetti grandchildren as well as the works of his father agostino ansano polidori, who was a writer and a doctor like john.
#john polidori#gaetano polidori#count guiccioli#teresa gamba#teresa guiccioli#lord byron#alfieri#christina rossetti#dante gabriel rossetti#history#english literature#literature#romanticism#vittorio alfieri#agostino ansano polidori
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Christina Rossetti, “Autumn”
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She may be queen of devils but she’s every inch a queen.
~Christina Rossetti
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Pre-Raphaelite Dove Advent Calendar 13
And the Dove, Maybe, Return to Nestle Here by Christina Rossetti, illustration by Florence Harrison
#pre-raphaelite#art#victorian art#pre raphaelite#preraphaelite#advent#victorian poetry#christina rossetti#florence harrison#dove#dove advent
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