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Article: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's religious poetics: Congregationalist models of hymnist and preacher.
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- Victorian Poetry
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- June 22, 2007
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In recent work on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's conception of the poet figure, several critics have situated Aurora Leigh within the context of Victorian sage discourse. Sage discourse, defined by John Holloway as the expression of "notions about the world, man's place in it, and how he should live," appealed to Victorian writers as a mode of expression because the rapidly shifting dynamics of their age seemed to call either for new understandings of human significance or for the recovery of values that were being lost) Thomas Carlyle set the terms of sage discourse early in the period: whoever else "may forget this divine mystery [of the Universe]," he declared, "the ...
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