Complete Poems

With the wide range of topics she covers and the variety of poetry forms she uses Rossetti stands out among Victorian poets. This book includes her extensive body of devotional poetry as well as fantastical poems like Goblin Market horrifyingly graphic rhymes for young readers love lyrics and sonnets. The poems of Rossetti make linkages between heavenly joys and earthly pleasures triumph and sorrow and love and death. Her songs simplicity and directness still have the capacity to astonish us with their beauty and veracity.