Aurora Leigh and Other Poems - Softcover

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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9780704338203: Aurora Leigh and Other Poems

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0704338203 ISBN 13: 9780704338203

Publisher: Womens Pr Ltd, 1982

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This is a reissue of Browning's novel in verse that describes Aurora's successful rebellion against Victorian convention, and her right to pursue a career as a writer and be in love.

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Aurora Leigh, a novel in verse, is Elizabeth Barrett Browning�s tour de force. It describes, with vigor and brilliance, Aurora�s successful rebellion against her conventional Victorian childhood: to travel to Italy, to find love, and to pursue her career as a writer. This volume, which also includes some of Browning�s short political poems, �embodies, like all enduring literature, truths that transcend historical particulars.� (The Guardian) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) married the poet Robert Browning in 1846; they spent the next 15 years in Italy, where she published Sonnets from the Portuguese, her love poems to Robert Browning, and Aurora Leigh.

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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.

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