For this week's class we were tasked with the curation of a series of publications of Christina Rossetti’s classic poem “Goblin Market”. The process of curation was both incredibly interesting and uniquely challenging. Firstly, I like to point out that the experience of viewing all the first edition and primary source texts front the Ryerson Library was incredibly engaging. It was wonderful to see all those different versions of the text first hand and really illuminating to learn just how much the text had evolved overtime.

With this weeks activity of building a gallery to showcase the various editions of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, I learned a lot more about pictures themselves and their contexts, and further how their contexts influence the way that they represent a given text. For example, my group was asked to curate the illustrations of Laurence Housman, and through research I was able to discover that he made the original illustrations for the first published edition, meaning that they were less of a personal interpretation and more of a reflection of the text.

I enjoyed building the editions and renditions of “Goblin Market” in Cove. I was assigned to group four, in which we looked at “Goblin Market,” in the form of children’s books. I looked at Martin Ware’s rendition, in which I was very interested to see the how his images appeared to be very frightening and graphic. While using the secondary source, I was able to discover that he creates independently of the intended audience, therefore he did not create the images specifically for child consumption.