Presents the author's epic poem "Auora Leigh," along with selections of other poems.
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 the poems. What Edgar Allan Poe called 'her wild and magnificent genius' is abundantly in evidence. In addition to Aurora Leigh, this volume contains poetry from the several volumes of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's published poetry from 1826 to 1862, including Casa Guidi Windows (1851), Songs for the Ragged Schools of London (1854) and the British Library manuscript text of the 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' (1846) which records her courtship with Robert Browning.
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"Her ardour and abundance, her brilliant descriptive powers, her shrewd and caustic humour infect us with her own enthusiasm. We laugh, we protest, we complain it is absurd, it is impossible, we cannot tolerate this exaggeration a moment longer but, nevertheless, we read to the end enthralled. What more can an author ask?" Virginia Woolf
Preface vii Acknowledgements x Table of Dates xi Further Reading xvi Aurora Leigh (1856) 1(308) From Essay on Mind, With Other Poems (1826) 309(4) Verses to My Brother 309(1) Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron (1824) 310(1) Lines on the Portrait of the Widow of Riego 311(2) From Prometheus Bound, And Miscellaneous Poems (1833) 313(2) The Death-Bed of Teresa del Riego 313(2) The Cry Of The Children (1843, 1844) 315(5) From Poems (1844) 320(45) Past and Future 320(1) To George Sand, A Desire 320(1) Lady Geraldines Courtship 321(22) Crowned and Wedded (1840) 343(3) Wine of Cyprus 346(5) The Dead Pan 351(8) Caterina to Camoens 359(6) The Run Away Slave At Pilgrims Point (1848, 1849, 1850) 365(10) From Poems (1850) 375(24) Flush or Faunus 375(1) Hiram Powers Greek Slave 375(1) Hugh Stuart Boyd: His Blindness 376(1) Hugh Stuart Boyd: Legacies 376(1) Sonnets from the Portuguese (1846) 377(22) Cas A Guidi Windows (1851) 399(57) From Two Poems 456(6) Elizabeth Barrett Robert Browning A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London 456(6) From Poems Before Congress (1860) 462(2) Christmas Gifts 462(2) From Last Poems (1862) 464(3) The North and the South (1861) 464(1) Psyche Gazing on Cupid (1845) 465(2) Notes 467(47) Index of Titles 514(1) Index of First Lines 515
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) - née Barrett English poet, the wife of Robert Browning, the most respected and successful woman poet of the Victorian period.
