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Article: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spiritual Progress: Face to Face with God.(Review) (book review)
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- March 22, 2000
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LEWIS, Linda M. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spiritual Progress: Face to Face with God. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1998. xii, 256 pp. $34.95.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning professed a Christian faith throughout her life and, like other early Victorians, explored the possibilities of a Christian poetics. Reconciling her faith with her Romantic or feminist rebelliousness has never been easy for readers. Victorian reviewers praised her as a religious poet, but they often admonished her for what Gerald Massey, in 1862, called a "prodigal abundance" of vision and style. Late twentieth-century feminist scholars tend toward the opposite. In 1979 Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan ...