I have been looking for this recording for years. Comment by Paul Lemon 3īy far the best reading. This is how poetry should be read! Wonderful xx Comment by gareth_lloydĮcho gratitude for this and, yes, a brilliant reading. Thank you so much for posting this - I heard it when first broadcast on Poetry Please but it's no longer available on iPlayer. Sensational reading by Shirley Henderson. The best reading of this ever, so happy to have found this on line, brillant Shirley Comment by Sally Dunbar Am I able to download this do that I don't ever lose it? Comment by Angie Bliss I have had this as my only thing on SoundCloud for 4 years now. By Cailin Roles (MA 19), Department of English, Kansas State University Christina Rossettis 1862 poem Goblin Market tells the story of Laura and Lizzie. The only reading for me, Sarah creates the beauty of the temptation and the danger Comment by andrewjohnbell In this very well known poem Christina Rossetti draws on the same child-like purity of diction that Blake uses in his Songs of Innocence and Experience. Poetry Please is presented by the poet Roger McGough
William Michael Rossetti warned against a search for detailed symbolism, while accepting a general ethical significance for the poem: "I have more than once heard Christina aver that the poem has not any profound or ulterior meaning-it is just a fairy story yet one can discern that it implies at any rate this much-that to succumb to temptation makes one a victim to that same continuous temptation that the remedy does not always lie with oneself and that a stronger and more righteous will may prove of avail to restore one's lost estate" (Mackenzie Bell, Christina Rossetti, 207).Shirley Henderson gives a beguiling reading of Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti. The year after Christina Rossetti's death, "Goblin Market" was interpreted by James Ashcroft Noble as "a little spiritual drama of love's vicarious redemption, in which the child redeemer goes into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil, that by her painful conquest she may succour and save the sister who has been vanquished and all but slain. R." (Maria Francesca Rossetti, Christina's sister). 1] First entitled "A Peep at the Goblins-To M.
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