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engWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her
own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the
Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today
we have only a limited knowledge of her considerable life’s
work as a poet, in part because of a lack of representative but
accessible editions of her work. Readers will find here not only
her well-known sonnet sequence of love poems, Sonnets
From the Portuguese, but also lesser known sonnets, some in
praise of the cross-dressing bohemian writer George Sand,
others to contemporary poets and artists. Her religious and
spiritual poetry echoes that of the Metaphysical poets. A
different voice emerges in her social and political protest
poems, such as ‘The Cry of the Children’ and ‘The Runaway
Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’. Her experimental ballads allowed her
to develop a distinctive way of writing about women within an
apparently conventional form. In the outstanding work of her
maturity, Aurora Leigh, the woman’s voice takes centre stage.
This ‘novel-poem’ is full of verve and interest, with a female
poet-hero who casts a caustic eye on life and on her fellow
men – and women. We all think we know the story of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning – the mysterious illness which enclosed her
in her room, her over-loving but imperious father, and her
romantic, secret marriage to the poet Robert Browning and
their life together in Italy. But this comprehensive selection of

her poetry tells the real story of her sustained creative life as a
poet, which began with her childhood poetic ambitions and
ended only with her death. All the major aspects of her poetry
are represented in this accessible edition which is wellannotated
and contextualised, with a wide-ranging introduction
which covers Barrett Browning’s poetic and intellectual life as
well as her personal one. Recent critical re-readings, including
major feminist reassessments, of her poetry are covered in the
introduction, with helpful suggestions for further reading.
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Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Elizabeth Barrett
Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that
she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship
when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a
limited knowledge of her considerable life’s work as a poet, in
part because of a lack of representative but accessible editions
of her work. Readers will find here not only her well-known
sonnet sequence of love poems, Sonnets From the
Portuguese, but also lesser known sonnets, some in praise of
the cross-dressing bohemian writer George Sand, others to
contemporary poets and artists. Her religious and spiritual
poetry echoes that of the Metaphysical poets. A different voice
emerges in her social and political protest poems, such as
‘The Cry of the Children’ and ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s
Point’. Her experimental ballads allowed her to develop a
distinctive way of writing about women within an apparently
conventional form. In the outstanding work of her maturity,
Aurora Leigh, the woman’s voice takes centre stage. This
‘novel-poem’ is full of verve and interest, with a female poethero
who casts a caustic eye on life and on her fellow men –
and women. We all think we know the story of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning – the mysterious illness which enclosed her

in her room, her over-loving but imperious father, and her
romantic, secret marriage to the poet Robert Browning and
their life together in Italy. But this comprehensive selection of
her poetry tells the real story of her sustained creative life as a
poet, which began with her childhood poetic ambitions and
ended only with her death. All the major aspects of her poetry
are represented in this accessible edition which is wellannotated
and contextualised, with a wide-ranging introduction
which covers Barrett Browning’s poetic and intellectual life as
well as her personal one. Recent critical re-readings, including
major feminist reassessments, of her poetry are covered in the
introduction, with helpful suggestions for further reading.