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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... sense of humility and obligation - whether to Divine Providence which had endowed him with his talent , or to the public he must address , or to his predecessors , who offered him the two - edged gift of their language . Accordingly ...
... sense of humility and obligation - whether to Divine Providence which had endowed him with his talent , or to the public he must address , or to his predecessors , who offered him the two - edged gift of their language . Accordingly ...
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... sense of humour and a sense of proportion , about her own con- cerns as well as others ' ; and her writing gives , as Browning's almost never does , that sense of a speaker which is one of the sleights of style we most prize in letters ...
... sense of humour and a sense of proportion , about her own con- cerns as well as others ' ; and her writing gives , as Browning's almost never does , that sense of a speaker which is one of the sleights of style we most prize in letters ...
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... sense deserted her ; there was no way in which she and Browning could have disguised a difference in their incomes which too many people already knew about or could easily discover . Browning , too , later admitted to having had a few ...
... sense deserted her ; there was no way in which she and Browning could have disguised a difference in their incomes which too many people already knew about or could easily discover . Browning , too , later admitted to having had a few ...
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Backgrounds | 15 |
First Letters | 44 |
First Meeting | 75 |
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12 June allusion Arabel Aurora Leigh beth Barrett brothers Browning and Elizabeth Browning wrote Browning's letter Carlyle correspondence course courtship dear dearest death Drama of Exile dramatic EBB to MRM Eliza Elizabeth Bar Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett wrote elopement expression eyes fact father feeling felt Flush George Barrett George Sand give hand Haydon heart idea imagination Italy July June Kenyon kind Kintner knew language later Letters of EBB living look lover marriage Mary Russell Mitford means meant meeting mind Miss Mitford nature never opening Papa Paracelsus passage perhaps phrase Pippa Passes Pisa affair poem poet poetry reference relationship reply rhetorical Robert Browning seems sense Sept Sonnet Sordello speak talk tell thing thought tion told Browning visits whole Wimpole Street woman words writing