Aurora Leigh - Hardcover

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0704328208 ISBN 13: 9780704328204

Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd, 1978

Synopsis

1892. An English poet of the Romantic Movement, Aurora Leigh is Browning's novel in blank verse. The first-person narrative, which comprises some 11,000 lines, tells of the heroine's childhood and youth in Italy and England, her self-education in her father's hidden library, and her successful pursuit of a literary career. This volume also contains A Drama of Exile; The Seraphim and Prometheus Bound. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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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

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0704328208
• ISBN 13: 9780704328204
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416