The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettClarendon Press, 1985 - 281 pagini In 1846 Elizabeth Barrett rose from an invalid's bed to elope to Italy with Robert Browning. The secret courtship of the two poets--their long correspondence and their meetings in the shadow of Elizabeth's tyrannical father--has become one of the most celebrated romances of literary history. Based on a more intense study of the letters than has ever been attempted before, this book gives a fresh account of the powerful myth of Browning's chivalrous rescue and Barrett's miraculous recovery, examines anew the character and motivation of the three principals, and demonstrates what and important part the letters play in the interpretation of both poet's work. |
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... feeling were beside the point . To us , however , as readers now both of his letters and of his poems , Browning's odd insistence on his expressive weaknesses and failures is of profound importance . It illuminates not just his writ ...
... feeling were beside the point . To us , however , as readers now both of his letters and of his poems , Browning's odd insistence on his expressive weaknesses and failures is of profound importance . It illuminates not just his writ ...
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... feeling rises altogether ' . Feeling overrides expression and suppresses any partial revelation , leaving the primary act of perception , or love . ' I do , as I say , love these books with all my heart - and I love you too ' : love ...
... feeling rises altogether ' . Feeling overrides expression and suppresses any partial revelation , leaving the primary act of perception , or love . ' I do , as I say , love these books with all my heart - and I love you too ' : love ...
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... feeling , Browning devalues actions , gestures , and even , in one exceptional passage , feelings themselves , those which have been superseded : At the beginning , I used to say ( most truly ) that words were all inadequate to express ...
... feeling , Browning devalues actions , gestures , and even , in one exceptional passage , feelings themselves , those which have been superseded : At the beginning , I used to say ( most truly ) that words were all inadequate to express ...
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Backgrounds | 15 |
First Letters | 44 |
First Meeting | 75 |
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