afterword The Riddle of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market by Joyce Carol Oates, in Goblin Market a tale of two sisters by Christina Rossetti, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1997
Found wing, Barrington RI
How seriously is the reader to take Rossetti's final vision of a matrilineal and matriarchal world in which the highest value is sisterhood?
afterword The Riddle of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market by Joyce Carol Oates, in Goblin Market a tale of two sisters by Christina Rossetti, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1997 Found wing, Barrington RI She dreamed of melons, as a traveler sees
False waves in desert drouth With shade of leaf-crowned trees, And burns the thirstier in the sandful breeze. Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market - a tale of two sisters Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1997 "Have done with sorrow;
I'll bring you plums tomorrow Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market - a tale of two sisters Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1997 For contemporary readers, it is the elusive subtext of Goblin Market that seizes our imaginations, provoking us to wonder at the poem's more subtle and possibly more subversive meanings.
afterword The Riddle of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market by Joyce Carol Oates, in Goblin Market a tale of two sisters by Christina Rossetti, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1997 Photo taken from corner of 14th and Fifth, NYC Lizzie covered up her eyes,
Covered close lest they should look; Laura reared her glossy head, And whispered like the restless brook: "Look, Lizzie, look, Lizzie," Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market - a tale of two sisters Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1997 Photo taken in NYC 2018 |
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