Elizabeth Barrat Browning Flashcards
Her on her poetry
I never wrote to please any of you, not even to please my own husband
her first principle
Looke in thine heart, and write
According to Robert Bernard Martin
Has always been one of those writers who act like a polished surface to reflect the concerns of those who rite about them
Her sonnets and typical victorian reader
Sonnets were the epitome of appropriate poetry for women to write because they showed a woman in her best role- loving and expressing sentiments of love.
Form
Lyric, ballad, narrative- ballad extremely w 19th century readers but took form and manipulated it to reflect social issues
Work broke conventions
She discussed emancipation, child labour, industrialistion, womens rights and education, fallen woman and political liberties (Italian aswell)
Edgar Allan Poe
the noblest of her sex
Lilian Whiting
“distinctly purposeful, with honest vision”
Mermin on courtship
What we feel should be kept private
Conant
Sonnets “ without competition, the finest love poems in our language, unsatisfied heart every unbeliever in the peculiar greatness of womanhood”
From sonnets from the Portuguese
Petrarchan sonnet
Volta happens mid way 8th line
title to make it seem like translations of text for privacy
The best thing in the world
God is/ love is/ live of god
Truncated sonnet, two line short so not formal
