Christina Rossetti – Selected Poetry

INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:

At Home
A Better Resurrection
A Birthday
The Convent Threshold
Cousin Kate
Despised and Rejected
Echo
Good Friday
In the bleak midwinter
Jessie Cameron
The Lowest Place
Maude Clare
Remember
A Royal Princess
Shut Out
Song [‘When I am dead’]
Summer Is Ended
To Lalla, reading my verses topsy-turvy
Twice
Up-Hill
Winter: My Secret

BONUS MATERIAL
Goblin Market
(an unabridged reading by Miriam Margolyes)

Saints and Sinners
(an incidental music suite by Howard Carter)

ENGLISH STUDENTS

Christina Rossetti – Selected Poems is a set text for the following examinations:

• AQA AS/A-Level English Literature B (Poetry 1800-1945 specifies ‘The Convent Threshold’, ‘Cousin Kate’, Goblin Market’, ‘Jessie Cameron’, ‘Maude Clare’, ‘A Royal Princess’ & ‘Winter: My Secret’)
• AQA AS/A-Level English Language & Literature B (Text Transformation specifies Christina Rossetti)
• EdExcel GCSE English Literature (Understanding Poetry specifies ‘Remember’)
• EdExcel IGSCE English Literature (Anthology Poems specifies ‘Remember’)
• EdExcel GCE English Literature (Poetry specifies ‘At Home’)
• OCR GSCE English Literature (Poetry specifies ‘Cousin Kate’, ‘Maude Clare’, ‘Remember’ & ‘Shut Out’; Literary Heritage Poetry specifies Christina Rossetti)
• OCR GCE English Literature (Poetry and Prose 1800-1945 specifies ‘A Birthday’, ‘Song [When I am dead]’, ‘Up-hill’, ‘Remember’, ‘Echo’, ‘Twice’, ‘Maude Clare’, ‘Shut Out’, ‘A Better Resurrection’, ‘Winter: My Secret’, ‘Good Friday’, ‘Despised and Rejected’, ‘The Lowest Place’, ‘Summer Is Ended’ & ‘To Lalla, reading my verses topsy-turvy’)

FURTHER READING

Works by Christina Rossetti:
Christina Rossetti: Poems and Prose (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Christina Rossetti: The Complete Poems (Penguin, 2001)
Christina Rossetti: The Complete Poems, ed. R.W. Crump (Variorum, 1979-1990)
The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti (London, 1904)

Studies of Christina Rossetti:
David Clifford and Laurence Roussillon, Outsiders Looking In: The Rossettis Then and Now (Anthem, 2004)
Kathleen Jones, Learning Not To Be First: A Biography of Christina Rossetti (Oxford University Press, 1991)
Jan Marsh, Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life (Viking, 1994)
Michael Schmidt, Lives Of The Poets (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998)

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