Episode 295: "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti, Part 2

<p>Today on The Literary Life podcast Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks continue their two-part series on Christina Rossetti's narrative poem "<a href= "https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market">Goblin Market</a>." They begin discussing this poem by connecting it with the larger conversation on art and the literary tradition, pointing out the flaws of modern ways of reading. Angelina emphasizes the importance of understanding this poem, as well as other classic works of fantasy, in terms of the fairy world and how symbolism and allegory work in fairy tales. After these preliminary thoughts, they go into more detail about this poem, including the obvious picture of the Fall, the vampire imagery, other Scriptural allusions, and the false versus the true Eucharist.</p> <p>Join us back here next week for our Dracula series reboot and more examples of how to read well! And for the full show notes for this week's episode, please visit <a href= "https://theliterary.life/295...