Eric’s Reviews > Complete Poetical Works of Christina Rossetti > Status Update

p.196/1987. Spring Quiet.

Jessie Cameron

“Maiden-Song”

Have already read Goblin Market, recently, so skipping that section in this sort-of-complete (not actually complete - her -complete- works weren't published until much too recently to be available in a cheap Delphi edition!) - collection - and continuing with The Prince's Progress and Other Poems. The rest of the first collection did not improve my opinion of it.

Sleep at Sea

Consider the lilies of the field

Symbols

Sweet Death.

“Christian and Jew: A Dialogue” - I will be kind and not say another word- with effort- at this youthful and insulting “pious” idiocy.

Surprised and disappointed by the early poems which have the failure of theory of mind present in many proselytizing poetry, assuming that the person one’s attempting to bring around to one’s corner -already- sees the world as one does.