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3 unusual facts about Goblin Market


Frances Polidori

Her youngest child, Christina Georgina, became famous as a poet and is probably best known as the author of the poem Goblin Market.

Goblin Market

For Sandra Gilbert, the fruit represents Victorian women's exclusion from the world of art.

According to Antony Harrison of North Carolina State University, Jerome McGann reads the poem as a criticism of Victorian marriage markets and conveys "the need for an alternative social order".


Agnieszka's Dowry

Accepted instances include a brief take-off on Christina Rossetti's long poem "Goblin Market" (the complete text is of course included), a free-verse meditation dovetailing with the "Holy Sonnet XIV" by John Donne, and an English-language invention on Catullus' erotic poem "Number 51" (submitted in the original Latin), itself inspired by Sappho's Ancient Greek (Aeolic) fragment Sappho 31.


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