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Article: Elizabeth Barrett Browning.(Guide to the Year's Work)(Victorian poetry)(Critical essay)(Column)
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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In contrast to last year's work on EBB, in which religion formed a dominant theme, 2006 has brought a return to a strong emphasis on politics--both the politics of nation and gender politics. Works on which attention seems to have converged include the explicitly political Casa Guidi Windows and Poems before Congress, along with Aurora Leigh and "Mother and Poet," one of the most discussed works in Last Poems (1862). Among major new primary resources on EBB, Volume 15 of The Brownings' Correspondence has appeared from Wedgestone Press, as carefully edited and beautifully produced as its precursors in this indispensable comprehensive collection of the Brownings' letters, ...