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- Title
"Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me": Eucharist and the Erotic Body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market.
- Authors
Hill, Marylu
- Abstract
The article comments on the poetry of Christina Rossetti. It also focuses on the erotic nature of her poem "Goblin Market." It describes the history of Rossetti's reading of Saint Augustine and her connection with the Tractarians. It offers some background of the Anglo-Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist. It discusses the role of the physical body in Eucharistic language. It offers a reading of the poem "Goblin Market" through the twin sensibilities of erotic desire and spiritual satisfaction. It argues that Rossetti's startlingly physical imagery is the logical and indeed appropriate spiritual conclusion of Eucharistic doctrine.
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894; GOBLIN Market (Poem); OXFORD movement; LORD'S Supper; EROTICA; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 4, p455
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2006.0003