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Article: Damsels, dulcimers, and dreams: Elizabeth Barrett's early response to Coleridge.(Critical essay)
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- Victorian Poetry
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- June 22, 2008
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When Elizabeth Barrett famously complained in 1845 to Henry Chorley at she look[ed] everywhere for Grandmothers and [found] none," she neglected to mention that her early reviewers seemed as eager as she to find an appropriate genealogy for her poetry. (1) To read nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century critical views of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry is to see her compared to everyone from Chaucer to Tennyson, and with particular gusto to earlier nineteenth-century writers, especially Byron and Wordsworth. From early reviews of Elizabeth Barrett's work to Dorothy Mermin's groundbreaking book to Marjorie Stone's indispensable 1995 study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ...
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