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Featured author miles watson is the x10 awardwinning author of cage life, knuckle down, devils you know, nosferatu, and the numbers game. Poets and authors have produced numerous works that seem meant for children. In a letter to her publisher, rossetti claimed that the poem, which is interpreted frequently as having features of remarkably sexual imagery, was. But that is not the highlight of this slim volume of verse. Overall, rossetti did not publish much, but she did submit her first volume of poetry, goblin market and other poems. Often read as a poem of renunciation as perhaps all rossettis poems. Goblin market has been much argued over and there are numerous interpretations. Auden once said, there are no good books which are only for children kooistra 181. The goblin s onslaught on virtue immediately engages the readers inner ear and heart. An important and oftenquoted literary figure, the english poet christina rossetti 18301894 wrote some of the most beautiful and voluptuous poetry in the english language. Jan 15, 20 librivox recording of goblin market and other poems by christina rossetti.
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