By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
Christina Rossetti (1830-94) originally gave her poem ‘Winter: My Secret’ the rather less appealing title ‘Nonsense’. She renamed it with its more exciting title when it was published in Goblin Market and Other Poems in 1862. The new title immediately piques our interest. ‘Winter: My Secret’. But what secret? In this post, we offer some notes towards a summary and analysis of Rossetti’s poem.