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Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning
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- By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- About Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- By Robert Browning
- About Robert Browning
- The Brownings
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| Aurora Leigh Price: £5.59 "an example of the mid-19th-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of satiric portraits" |
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| Selected Poems Price: £4.79 "Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. |
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| The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Wordsworth Collection) Price: £10.54 "Often regarded as a romantic heroine in the Victorian era, Browning was no damsel in distress. She defines and brings to her poetry an unsentimental yet feminine perspective of the values and society of her time." |
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| Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems Price: £0.95 |
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About Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning By Margaret Forster Price: £7.19 "The story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning has become part of literary mythology - the invalid kept locked up in Wimpole Street by a tyrannical father until her elopement and flight to Italy at the age of 40. This biography introduces the reader to a strong and determined Elizabeth Barrett. " This is an interesting biography, I enjoyed reading it. |
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| Elizabeth Barrett Browning By Marjorie Stone Price: £14.99 "Drawing on previously neglected manuscripts, this study deconstructs the gender and genre ideologies obscuring the achievement of one of England's major women poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The author resituates Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her cultural context, demonstrating her prominence in 19th-century literary history and Victorian feminist discourse. Close readings reveal the allusive intertextuality of Barrett Browning's works, her revisions of the Romantics, her innovations in a range of genres and her creation of emancipatory strategies for the woman writer." |
By Robert Browning
| Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" Illustrated by Bud Peen Price: £8.46 "This edition of Browning's classic moral tale in rhyme contains colour illustrations which were electronically painted on a computer screen. The pied piper is hired to rid Hamelin of its rats, but the townspeople refuse to pay him. His revenge is to lure all the children away to an enchanted land." |
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| Men and Women and Other Poems Price: £4.79 "Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes." |
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| The Complete Works of Robert Browning By Robert Browning, Roma A. King (Editor), et al (Editor) Price: £54.95 "This volume of the poet's complete works contains Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day, a work which encompasses autobiography as well as influences on the poet's life and career and on Victorian thought and culture in general." |
About Robert Browning
| Robert Browning By Sarah Wood Price: £13.99 "Robert Browning both denied and affirmed the value of biography for an understanding of literature. This book narrates the development of his controversial creative life through responses to his work by five key 19th-century figures: John Stuart Mill, William Charles Macready, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold. It also relates Browning's sense of literary vocation to Victorian publishing. Browning emerges as a writer vividly engaged with contemporary assumptions, yet deeply aware of the unaccountability of writing." |
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| Complete Critical Guide to Robert Browning By Stefan Hawlin Price: £11.99 "Robert Browning is one of the most studied figures of the 19th century. His innovations in poetry, particularly in the genre of the dramatic monologue, make him a key figure of study on Victorian literature courses or poetry courses. This work is a critical guide to his work." |
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The Brownings
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning : Interviews and Recollections Martin Garrett (Editor) Price: £48.79 |
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| Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett By Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Daniel Karlin (Editor) Price: £32.50 "When their correspondence began in 1845, Robert Browning was 32 years old and Elizabeth Barrett 38. They were both, although for different reasons, disillusioned and disappointed people. Browning's earlier poetry had been given an encouraging reception but his most recent work had been greeted with ridicule. Conversely, Barrett's reputation was rising; her 1844 collection of poems had advanced her standing as a poet but did little to lift her depression. Her illness confined her to a single room and this, together with the oppressiveness of her family's attention, made her feel morbid and desolate. As she knew her father would not give her permission to marry, the courtship had to be conducted clandestinely, mainly through letters. Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett wrote incessantly and at great length, exchanging over 500 letters during their two-year courtship. The letters selected for this edition concentrate on their developing relationship and their discovery that, from each other, they could find sufficient strength to overcome their disillusion. The editor has concentrated on what the two writers have to say about their own love-relationship, and on the way they say it. He has selected those letters and passages where Browning's and Barrett's self-consciousness and consciousness of the other was at its most intense. At the same time, their correspondence reveals the interaction of two acute and inventive minds and provides a complement to their poetical works." |
| The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett By Daniel Karlin Price: £27.50 |
