Aurora Leigh and Other Poems

Elizabeth Browning, John Bolton, Julia Holloway

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Penguin
27 July 1995

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Penguin Black Classics

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

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