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Aurora Leigh and other poems

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 1806-1861 (Author). Bolton, John Robert Glorney. (Added Author). Holloway, Julia Bolton, 1937- (Added Author).

Summary: Wrote Virginia Woolf of Aurora Leigh in 1931. '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?' 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. 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 The Cry of the Children (1843), Casa Guidi Windows (1851) and the British Library manuscript text of the 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' which records her courtship with Robert Browning.

Record details

ISBN: 9780140434125
ISBN: 0140434127
Physical Description: xx, 517 pages ; 20 cm.
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Publisher: London, England ; Penguin Books, 1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xvi]-xx) and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Aurora Leigh (1856) -- Verses to My Brother -- Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron [1824] -- Lines on the Portrait of the Widow of Riego -- The Death-Bed of Teresa del Riego -- The Cry of the Children (1843, 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 Camoens -- The Run Away Slave at Pilgrim's Point (1848, 1849, 1850) -- Flush or Faunus -- Hiram Powers' Greek Slave -- Hugh Stuart Boyd: His Blindness -- Hugh Stuart Boyd: Legacies -- Sonnets from the Portuguese [1846] -- Casa Guidi Windows (1851) -- A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London -- Christmas Gifts -- The North and the South [1861] -- Psyche Gazing on Cupid [1845].