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.
By:
Elizabeth Browning
Edited by:
John Bolton,
Julia Holloway
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 394g
ISBN: 9780140434125
ISBN 10: 0140434127
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 27 July 1995
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Aurora Leigh and Other Poems - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Edited by John Robert Glorney Bolton and Julia Bolton Holloway Preface Acknowledgments Table of Dates Further Reading Aurora Leigh From Essay on Mind, with Other Poems (1826) Verses to My Brother Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron [1824] Lines on the Portrait of the Widow of Riego From Prometheus Bound, and Miscellaneous Poems (1833) The Death-Bed of Teresa del Riego The Cry of the Children (1843, 1844) From Poems (1844) Past and Future To George Sand. A Desire Lady Geraldine's Courtship Crowned and Wedded [1840] Wine of Cyprus The Dead Pan Caterina to Camoëns The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point (1848, 1849, 1850) From Poems (1850) Flush or Faunus Hiram Powers' Greek Slave Hugh Stuart Boyd: His Blindness Hugh Stuart Boyd: Legacies Sonnets from the Portugese [1846] Casa Guidi Windows (1851) From Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London From Poems Before Congress (1860) Christmas Gifts From Last Poems (1862) The North and the South [1861] Psyche Gazing on Cupid [1845] Notes Index of Titles Index of First Lines
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) - nee Barrett English poet, the wife of Robert Browning, the most respected and successful woman poet of the Victorian period.
Reviews for Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
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
