Most of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry has been unavailable to new readers, in spite of a growing appreciation of her innovativeness as a poet—and it spite of her onvious importance for any feminist reading of nineteenth-century English poetry. With the publication of this book, a major portion of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's wok returns to print.The poems selected here includ early verse published in 1826, when the poet was twenty, as well as the last poems she wrote before her death in 1861. Her religious verse appears alongside lively ballads, examples of her social-reforming and political verse, and generous selections of her love poetry, including the whole of the Sonnets from the Portuguese.The volume illustrates Elizabeth Barrett Browning's development as a poet and reveals her contribution to feminist literature. Innocent-seeming ballads, beloved in the Victorian period for their sweetness and condemned thereafter for their cloying sentimentality, here emerge as subversive articulations of the plight of women. "Few heard what Elizabeth Barrett Browning said [in her time]," Margaret Forster writes. "Today, with ears more finely attuned, we can hear her clearly."

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Utgivningsdatum:1988-09-26
Mått:130 x 200 x 37 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801837548

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Margaret Forster in the author of the biography Elizabeth Barrett Browning and of The Rash Adventurer, William Makepeace Thackeray and Significant Sisters.

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The array of works offered is a rich one, from the religious to the romantic, the sentimental to the socially astute... In providing as representative a sample as possible without including the prefaces or extracts from the longer poems, Forster has succeeded admirably. Victorian Studies

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Editor's IntroductionNote on the TextPart I: From an Essay on Mind, With Other Poems (1826)Chapter 1. To My Father on His BirthdayChapter 2. SongChapter 3. The DreamPart II: From Prometheus Bound And Miscellaneous Poems (1833)Chapter 4. EpitaphChapter 5. The Image of GodChapter 6. A Sea-Side MeditationChapter 7. IdolsChapter 8. The TempestPart III: From the Seraphim, And Other Poems (1838)Chapter 9. A True DreamChapter 10. Man and NatureChapter 11. The Deserted GardenChapter 12. The Sea-MewChapter 13. A Sea-Side WalkChapter 14. My DovesChapter 15. Night and the Merry ManChapter 16. The SleepChapter 17. The Romaunt of MargretChapter 18. A Romance of the GangesPart IV: From Poems (1844)Chapter 19. De ProundisChapter 20. Past and FutureChapter 21. GriefChapter 22. Tears Chapter 23. SubstitutionChapter 24. Lady Geraldine's CourtshipChapter 25. The Lost BowerChapter 26. Rime of the Duchess MayChapter 27. The Lady's YesChapter 28. Bertha in the LaneChapter 29. Loved OnceChapter 30. Catarina to CamoensChapter 31. The Romance of the Swan's NestChapter 32. The Cry of the HumanChapter 33. The Cry of the ChildrenChapter 34. The Poet and the BirdPart V: From PoemsChapter 35. A Sabbath Morning at SeaChapter 36. Human Life's MysteryChapter 37. Question and Answer Chapter 38. Change Upon ChangeChapter 39. A Woman's ShortcomingsChapter 40. The MaskChapter 41. A Man's RequirementsChapter 42. A DenialChapter 43. A ReedChapter 44. Hector in the GardenChapter 45. Flush or FaunusChapter 46. Hiram Powers' Greek SlaveChapter 47. ConfessionsChapter 48. Sonnets from the PortugueseChapter 49. Casa Guidi Windows: Part One (1851)Part VI: From Poems Before Congress (1860)Chapter 50. A Curse for a NationChapter 51. A Court LadyChapter 52. A Tale of VillafrancaChapter 53. The DanceChapter 54. Christmas GiftsPart VII: From Last PoemsChapter 55. Lord Walter's WifeChapter 56. Amy's CrueltyChapter 57. A False StepChapter 58. My Heart And IChapter 59. Bianca Among the NightingalesChapter 60. Void in LawChapter 61. First News from VillafrancaChapter 62. The Forced RecruitChapter 63. Mother and PoetChapter 64. A Musical InstrumentChapter 65. The North and the SouthIndex of Poems