Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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 a….Read More
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