Sensuous excess comes to life in Christina Rossetti's 1862 poem "Goblin Market," with proliferation of rhymes, synonyms, luscious lists of fruits and "figs to fill your mouth." It's easy to imagine the Victorians being titillated by lines such as "she suck'd and suck'd and suck'd the more/Fruits which that unknown orchard bore;/She sucked until her […]
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:15PM on October 4, 2015