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A comprehensive selection of the work of the eighteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, this edition includes the full text of some of Barrett Browning's most celebrated works as well as generous selections from her lesser-known works, her diary, and family letters.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- A Note on the Selection and Ordering
- Part I: EARLY WORKS AND THE BARRETT FAMILY WRITINGS (1820-33)
- From The Battle of Marathon (1820)
- From (unpublished) 'Fragment of An Essay on Woman' (1822)
- From An Essay on Mind (1826)
- To My Father on His Birth-Day (1826)
- Song ('Weep as if you thought of laughter') (1826)
- Verses to my Brother (1826)
- Letter to Hugh Stuart Boyd (1828)
- Diary 1831-2
- From Preface to translation of Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (1833)
- From translation of Prometheus Bound (1833)
- A True Dream (1833)
- PART II: THE SERAPHIM AND OTHER POEMS (1838), CORRESPONDENCE 1841-5
- From Preface
- From The Seraphim
- From The Poet's Vow
- From The Romaunt of Margret
- The Deserted Garden
- Death of Bro (1840), Letters (1841-45)
- SECTION III: POEMS (1844)
- Dedication: To My Father
- From Preface
- Past and Future
- Irreparableness
- Grief
- Tears
- Substitution
- Work and Contemplation
- Letter to John Kenyon
- from A Drama of Exile
- An Apprehension
- To George Sand: A Recognition
- The Soul's Expression
- from The Lost Bower
- The Lady's Yes
- The Cry of the Children
- Lady Geraldine's Courtship
- SECTION IV: The Courtship Correspondence (1845-6)
- From the letters of EBB and Robert Browning (January 1845- April 1846
- SECTION V: POEMS 1850
- Sonnets from the Portuguese
- A Denial (1856)
- The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
- A Reed
- A Sabbath Morning at Sea
- A Woman's Shortcomings
- A Man's Requirements
- The Mask
- SECTION VI: CASA GUIDI WINDOWS (1851)
- Advertisement to the First Edition
- from Part I
- from Part II
- SECTION VII: AURORA LEIGH (1856)
- Dedication
- First Book
- Second Book
- Third Book
- Fourth Book
- Fifth Book
- Sixth Book
- Seventh Book
- Eighth Book
- Ninth Book
- SECTION VIII: LAST POEMS (1862)
- Bianca Among the Nightingales
- Mother and Poet
- A Musical Instrument
- Lord Walter's Wife
- Died
- My Heart and I
- The Best Thing in the World
- NOTES
About the author
Dr Josie Billington is a specialist in Victorian Literature who has published widely on nineteenth-century fiction and poetry -- Faithful Realism (2002), (ed) Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (2006), Eliot's Middlemarch (2008), Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare (2012), (ed) Margaret Oliphant Novellas (2013) -- and on interdisciplinary medical humanities research in the area of reading and health.
Professor Philip Davis is author of The Victorians 1830-1880 in The Oxford English Literary History series (OUP, 2002), Sudden Shakespeare (1997) Shakespeare Thinking (2007) and the biography, Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life (OUP, 2007). He is general editor of a new series from Oxford University Press, 'The Literary Agenda', on the future of literary studies in the twenty-first century, contributing his own volume Reading and The Reader (OUP, 2013) building on The Experience of Reading (1991) and Real Voices: On Reading (1997). He is editor of The Reader magazine.
Summary
A comprehensive selection of the work of the eighteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, this edition includes the full text of some of Barrett Browning's most celebrated works as well as generous selections from her lesser-known works, her diary, and family letters.
Additional text
The edition will make an excellent teaching text and expose students to the substantial range of Barrett Brownings poetry.
