The trashy poem "The Goblin's Market" was mistakenly labelled as children's literature at the time. Christina Rossetti even went against it. Even today the poem still gets that label. I was mistaken and thought this fantastic poem was all that Christina Rossetti really wrote. This book she wrote in 1862 blew my mind. There are poems about women being tore between virtue and sex but there are just as many religious poems. Religion played a large part in Christina Rossetti's life. I'm going to read a biography of her soon. I'm fascinated to find out more about this woman. I think she's just as good as other favorites of mine like Anne Sexton and Emily Dickinson. I didn't know it until 2021 but poetry can be fun.
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