Goblin Market
September, 1973
One hundred and fourteen years ago, a young writer named Christina Rossetti was suffering the collapse of a turbulent love affair. She sublimated her distress by writing a poem for children—a long poem called "Goblin Market." The author went on to become one of the notable women poets in English literature and the poem became a Victorian nursery classic, still reprinted and read to this day. Ostensibly, it is a scary narrative about two beautiful maiden sisters who get mixed up with a...
