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The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Paperback)
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The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Paperback)
Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
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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 poet, in part
because of a lack of representative but accessible editions of her
work. Readers will find here not only her well-known sonnet
sequence of love poems, Sonnets From the Portuguese, but also
lesser known sonnets, some in praise of the cross-dressing bohemian
writer George Sand, others to contemporary poets and artists. Her
religious and spiritual poetry echoes that of the Metaphysical
poets. A different voice emerges in her social and political
protest poems, such as `The Cry of the Children' and `The Runaway
Slave at Pilgrim's Point'. Her experimental ballads allowed her to
develop a distinctive way of writing about women within an
apparently conventional form. In the outstanding work of her
maturity, Aurora Leigh, the woman's voice takes centre stage. This
`novel-poem' is full of verve and interest, with a female poet-hero
who casts a caustic eye on life and on her fellow men - and women.
We all think we know the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning - the
mysterious illness which enclosed her in her room, her over-loving
but imperious father, and her romantic, secret marriage to the poet
Robert Browning and their life together in Italy. But this
comprehensive selection of her poetry tells the real story of her
sustained creative life as a poet, which began with her childhood
poetic ambitions and ended only with her death. All the major
aspects of her poetry are represented in this accessible edition
which is well-annotated and contextualised, with a wide-ranging
introduction which covers Barrett Browning's poetic and
intellectual life as well as her personal one. Recent critical
re-readings, including major feminist reassessments, of her poetry
are covered in the introduction, with helpful suggestions for
further reading.
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