"Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. “File:Buy from Us with a Golden Curl (Frontispiece to ‘Goblin Market and Other Poems’ by Christina Rossetti) MET DP835742.Jpg.” Wikimedia Commons, 1862, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buy_from_Us_with_a_Golden_Curl_(frontispiece_to_%22Goblin_Market_and_other_Poems%22_by_Christina_Rossetti)_MET_DP835742.jpg.

The "Goblin Market" was published in 1862. I have chosen this picture because it was created by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It is called Buy from Us with a Golden Curl  and it is used as a frontpiece to "Goblin Market". The picture depicts one of the sisters surrounded by the Goblin men, while the other one is running away. It is also showing the Goblin men as animals and covered in curious clothing. The sister, who we can assume is Laura, is cutting a lock of her golden hair. So, this painting allows the readers to see an interpretation of this poem through Dante Gabriel's eyes.

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1862