Victorian Poetry articles from December 2006

Victorian Poetry archives from December 2006

"Confirm my voice": "My sisters," poetic audiences, and the published voices of EBB.(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
December 22, 2006... In a pocket notebook including works dating from the 1842-44 period, the poet who used the name Elizabeth Barrett Barrett before her marriage and Elizabeth Barrett Browning afterwards, or "EBB" for short throughout her life, (1) drafted an...

Telling it slant: Promethean, Whig, and dissenting politics in Elizabeth Barrett's poetry of the 1830s.
December 22, 2006... Since the 1970s and the start of the process of recovering Elizabeth Barrett Browning from the "servants' quarters" of the "mansion" of Literature where, in Virginia Woolf's famous description, the poet "bangs the crockery around and eats vast...

Aurora Leigh's radical youth: derridean parergon and the narrative frame in "A Vision of Poets".
December 22, 2006... With the publication of Aurora Leigh in 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning not only offered readers a poetic work that rivaled Wordsworth's The Prelude in innovation of form and content but also identified this work as the pinnacle of her career....

An ebbigrammar of motives; or, ba for short.(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
December 22, 2006... worked and worn by passionate debates, And losing by the loss it apprehends, The flesh rocks round and every breath it sends Is ravelled to a sigh. All tortured states Suppose a straitened place. --EBB, "Finite...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare: translating the language of intimacy.
December 22, 2006... The poet who famously bemoaned her lack of literary grandmothers was not lacking in gratefully acknowledged male forebears, particularly Shakespeare and Homer, whom she describes as the "colossal borderers of the two intellectual departments of...

Publishing and reading "Our EBB": editorial pedagogy, contemporary culture, and "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point".(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)(Editorial)
December 22, 2006... This is Living Art": so runs the title of the Armstrong Browning Library s recent bicentennial conference on Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (1) Thirty years ago, this claim might have seemed dubious; by now, it is indisputable. The publication of...

Strange Music: engaging imaginatively with the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning from a Creole and Black Woman's perspective.
December 22, 2006... My novel in progress Strange Music (Jonathan Cape, forthcoming, 2008) offers a fictional exploration of the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning from Elizabeth's own perspective and from that of a Creole and a black woman, and juxtaposes the...

"The least 'Angelical' poem in the language": political economy, gender, and the heritage of Aurora Leigh.
December 22, 2006... Since its canonical recovery in the 1970s, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "novel-poem" Aurora Leigh has been a highly contested text in feminist literary criticism. (1) Critics have focused on EBB's tenuous position as a female poet in...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Coventry Patmore, and Alfred Tennyson on Napoleon III: The Hero-Poet and Carlylean Heroics.
December 22, 2006... The Hero can be Poet, Prophet, King, Priest or what you will, According to the world he finds himself born into. I confess, I have no notion of a truly great man that could not be all sorts of men. The Poet who could merely sit...

Two of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Pan poems and their after-life in Robert Browning's "Pan and Luna".(The Dead Pan)(A Musical Instrument)
December 22, 2006... Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Dead Pan" (1844) and "A Musical Instrument" (Cornhill Magazine, 1860) draw on the figure of the goat-god Pan to deal with aesthetic issues of poetic process and product, with theological issues of belief and...

Cobridme de flores: (un)covering flowers of Portuguese and Spanish poets in Sonnets from the Portuguese.
December 22, 2006... A small bound book that Elizabeth Barrett Browning used for Part II of her diary (1832), contains unpublished notes in her hand that give us more information on what she read, translated, and studied around the time of her diary entries. (1)...

"Judge no more what ladies do": Elizabeth Barrett Browning's active medievalism, the female troubadour, and Joan of Arc.
December 22, 2006... Elizabeth Barrett Browning's engagement with and contribution to the cultural discourse of Victorian medievalism is an area of her work which deserves far more critical attention than it has received: indeed the whole question of...