Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
$38.93
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
27 July 1995
Summary
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 Elizab…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140434125 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140434127 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Browning, John Bolton, Julia Holloway |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 27 July 1995 |
| Weight: | 394g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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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
About The Author
Elizabeth Browning
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.
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