![]() ![]() Spine slightly darkened, extremities bumped and. Newspaper clipping tipped-in on dedication page. Spine slightly darkened, extremities bumped and very lightly worn, cloth otherwise bright top edge a little dusty, lacking front free endpaper, contents clean. Frontispiece and title-page vignette by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Original blue vertically ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers decorated with woven frame and dot design in gilt on front cover and in blind on rear, brown-coated endpapers.įrontispiece and title-page vignette by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. "In the twentieth century a great interest has been taken in Freudian interpretations of poems such as Goblin Market, and Rossetti's work, which was previously admired for its innocence and artlessness, has become a hunting-ground for critics and biographers enlisted as a symbol of repressed female genius, she has had her work scanned for tropes of starvation and sexual guilt" (ODNB). ![]() ![]() Second edition of Rossetti's first collection of poems, "universally praised by reviewers as the herald of a new voice and an original talent" (ODNB), with illustrations by her brother Dante Gabriel the first edition was published in 1862. ![]()
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