Aurora Leigh and Other Poems (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Browning, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140434127 ISBN 13: 9780140434125

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Product Description:

A novel that tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. This volume contains poetry from the several volumes of the author's published poetry from 1826 to 1862, including 'Casa Guidi Windows' (1851), 'Songs for the Ragged Schools of London' (1854) and more.

Review:

"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 this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140434127
• ISBN 13: 9780140434125
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Bolton John, Holloway Julia