Presented in the chronological context of their lives, from their early years and courtship through their blissful fifteen-year marriage, this collection of poetry features the works of both Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, including Aurora Leigh, Sonnets from the Portuguese, and The [...]
"Aurora Leigh" (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of [...]
Aurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century, is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth century poem of contemporary life. It is an amazing verse novel which provides a panoramic view of the early Victorian age in London. The dominan[...]
"You'll call this sentimental--perhaps--but then a dog somehow represents the private side of life, the play side," Virginia Woolf confessed to a friend. In this charming and engaging book, Maureen Adams celebrates this private, playful side telling readers about the relationships between five remar[...]
First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets from the Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking poems that Elizabeth Barrett Browning composed for her husband, Robert Browning. This wonderful illustrated edition includes 22 additional works as wel[...]
Famed series of 44 love poems written to the poet's husband, Robert Browning, plus a selection of poems dealing with religion, art, social problems and political events. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
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A Reading Guide. Leads students through the major themes, approaches and contexts of this poem.
This study interprets Browning's poetry as a spiritual quest, with the successive stages being: a rejection of Promethean pride for Christ-like humility; affirmation of the gospels of suffering and of work; internalization of the doctrine of the Apocalypse; and ascent to divine love and truth.[...]
For most of the twentieth century the exuberant fluency of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art was not regarded as worthy of serious attention. This title offers an examination of the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning that connects her creative disposition, mind and mode to Shakespeare.[...]
This 1851 poem is a poignant response to the Risorgimento, and one of the finest works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.[...]
Referring to her olive-skinned complexion Robert Browning called his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "his little Portuguese." It is from this nickname that the title "Sonnets from the Portuguese" is derived. Sonnets from the Portuguese, a series of love poems from Elizabeth to her husband, is comb[...]
This edition collects the most important work by one of the greatest poets of the Victorian era. One of the leading poets of the nineteenth century, Elizabeth Barrett Browning had a profound influence on her contemporaries and on writers that followed her. This edition provides a rich and varied sel[...]
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a limited knowledge of her considerable life's work as a p[...]
Celebrated in their time and still popular over a century after their deaths, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett had a unique relationship which is reflected in their work. Both were distinguished as poets before they met, and they learnt from one another without ever sacrificing their individual[...]