Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)

This Kindle book is handsomely formatted, and is (certainly for the money) the most comprehensive collection of Christina Rossetti poems currently available on Kindle. [Another Kindle option is  Goblin Market and Other Poems (Trillium Classics) , which while nicely formatted for Kindle, contains less than 50 (mainly early) poems and lacks explanatory Notes.] Unfortunately, whereas when you download  Selected Poems: Rossetti  it APPEARS at first glance to be a fully functioning item, clicking on underlined poems in Contents simply bounces you right back to the initial poem in the book!I have contacted KINDLE, which has attempted to notify the publisher of this problem. Let's hope for a quick fix! When that happens, then the only drawback (for some readers) of this Kindle book, as far as I can tell, might be less copious supportive documentation, and absence of selected short stories and letters, which are both included in the Oxford World Classics paperback edition  Poems and Prose (Oxford World's Classics) ________________________________ADDENDUM (in response to the 29 September 2010 critical Comment by "Reader"): Having initially reviewed the Kindle edition of this book  Selected Poems: Rossetti  above, Amazon will not permit me to separately review the paperback edition  Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) . N.B.: So let me reiterate that the paperback is fine, as are  The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)  and  Poems and Prose (Oxford World's Classics) , the latter book having been referred to in my original review above.The bottom line is this: If you want a handsome selective compilation of Christina Rossetti's poems, go with  Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) , but make sure that the crippled formatting of the Kindle edition  Selected Poems: Rossetti  has been fixed before springing $9.99 for this electronic version. (This is hard to accomplish without first purchasing, and then returning, the defective Kindle book.) However, if you want to also dip into Rossetti's prose (e.g., short stories, letters, and essays), then purchase  Poems and Prose (Oxford World's Classics) . My favorite POETRY collection is the 1,312-page The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics), which has the bonus of including Rossetti's unpublished poems, such as the incomparable "Of My Life" (p. 830): Check it out by typing "I weary of my life Thro' the long sultry day" in the Search Inside This Book box. All three books have excellent explanatory Notes.

I think it's a great book in it's own right. However, there was no preview before buying the book, therefore, I only found out the book is missing ''Echo'' and one or two more poems from the OCR 2016 AS Examination Christina Rossetti Selected Poems.Here are the poems featured in the book, with a great in depth section on ''Goblin Market'':The Convent ThresholdCousin KateGoblin MarketJessie CameronMaude ClareNoble SistersA Royal PrincessIn the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857An Apple GatheringSister MaudeA DreamDream LandMarianaRememberSong (''Oh roses...'')Song (''When I am dead...'')Somewhere or OtherThree StagesThe P.R.B.L.E.L.A BirthdayIn an Artist's StudioWinter: My SecretA Christmas CarolDecember 29At HomeOld and New Year Ditties''No Thank You, John''Love from the NorthUp HillBirchington ChurchyardA Daughter of EveA Coast NightmareParadise

This book contains a selection of Christina Rossetti's poems. She had the misfortune to fall for unsuitable male partners and she never married. She often looks back in her poems at missed opportunities. The poems in this book are of various lengths and subjects. She writes very clearly. She sometimes reminds me a little of Tennyson. The way she chooses an apposite word to make a rhyme is very skilful. She died in 1894. This book is heartily recommended

Helpful info at the back that gives context to many of the selected poems. Should help anyone using this for schoolwork.

I know it is selected but disappointed there is no 'In The Bleak Midwinter'.

required text for a-level, daughter happy with it