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Article: Elizabeth Barrett Browning.(Guide To The Year's Work)
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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This year's work on EBB brings the harvest of conferences and special journal issues marking the bicentenary of the poet's birth in 1806. The harvest includes scholarship on an increasing range of her output, including works little discussed in contemporary criticism, such as her 1826 poem "An Essay on Mind," works in her 1833 and 1838 collections, and the neglected but ambitious 1844 poem "A Vision of Poets." As might be expected, Aurora Leigh and the Sonnets from the Portuguese continue to attract considerable scholarly attention, while Poems Before Congress and other poems by EBB on Italian politics also figure prominently this year, together with the pedagogical and ...