It was nice to read through some old poems I already knew and discover some new ones!! however, I really hated this book edition!! Goblin market, in my opinion one of Rossetti's best poems, was abridged along with some of her other longer poems! It just completely took away the emotion and message from those poems which really upset me. In addition, the "illustrations" I found did not match the poems and felt like they were just old paintings they put in (very much like those cheap paperback classics.) NO CLASSIC DESERVES THIS. NO BOOK DESERVES THIS. also the images were clearly printed cheaply, on one painting memorably I thought a woman was missing half of her face because her dark coloured hair blended into the background. Can't blame Rossetti for any of this, but she would probably also not be impressed.

Conclusion: always read Rossetti. never abridged, never in this edition.