EAN 9780140423662

Christina Rossetti's sonnets, ballads, nursery rhymes and devotional verse--all collected in The Complete Poems--confirm her reputation as one of the leading Pre-Raphaelite poets and a significant voice in Victorian poetry. She is possibly most loved for the elegant and simple "A Christmas Carol", popularly known as "In the Bleak Mid-Winter", first published in 1875 and set to music by Gustav Holst:

Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.

Its incantatory repetition and direct, lean diction signal what is strongest in Rossetti's style.