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balletbookworm's review
4.0
Perhaps not quite a 4-star but definitely better than OK for a poetry anthology. It reads very quickly and most of the poems selected are quite short, perhaps only a stanza or two, with a few poems stretching to 3 or 4 pages.
This is not annotated and I wish it were - some poems had very obscure references to medicine and I would have liked some insight as to why it had been placed with this or that group.
(I had been hoping that Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" was included - I once wrote a term paper for a Victorian poetry class about opiate addiction and imagery in Goblin Market - but no)
This is not annotated and I wish it were - some poems had very obscure references to medicine and I would have liked some insight as to why it had been placed with this or that group.
(I had been hoping that Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" was included - I once wrote a term paper for a Victorian poetry class about opiate addiction and imagery in Goblin Market - but no)
yeller's review
3.0
It took me a very long time to read this. It might have been the subject matter or how difficult my life was, but I wasn't having a great time with poetry the last few years. When I finally got down to it, this was a relatively enjoyable anthology.
missmarauder2's review
3.0
It took me a very long time to read this. It might have been the subject matter or how difficult my life was, but I wasn't having a great time with poetry the last few years. When I finally got down to it, this was a relatively enjoyable anthology.
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