Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems
This collection brings narrative, lyric and devotional poems together. Up-Hill uses questions and answers about a journey, while Goblin Market considers desire, danger and sisterly care in a narrative setting. Read a whole poem to hear changes of speaker and the force of its imagery. The linked combined collection identifies the earlier 1862 and 1866 books; it is related reading rather than a claim that every anthology or contributor excerpt matches this edition.
Who it suits
Readers who enjoy short poems, symbolic journeys and the relationship between care and endurance.
Reading experience
Moderate; short forms, historical diction and imagery with several possible readings. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.
The edition
- Edition
- The World’s Classics CLXXXIV, Oxford University Press; combined contents first published 1913, print impression unspecified
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
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Catalogue metadata checked 2026-10-05. Descriptions and reading guidance are original Edsverb editorial text. A related-reading link does not establish that an archive saying occurs in this edition.