Aurora Leigh and Other Poems

by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett; Bolton, John Robert Glorney; Holloway, Julia Bolton

• ISBN13: 9780140434125
• ISBN10: 0140434127
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the poems. What Edgar Allan Poe called 'her wild and magnificent genius' is abundantly in evidence. In addition to Aurora Leigh, this volume contains poetry from the several volumes of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's published poetry from 1826 to 1862, including Casa Guidi Windows (1851), Songs for the Ragged Schools of London (1854) and the British Library manuscript text of the Sonnets from the Portuguese (1846) which records her courtship with Robert Browning.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Table of Dates	xi
Further Reading	xvi
Aurora Leigh (1856)	1	(308)
From Essay on Mind, With Other Poems (1826)	309	(4)
Verses to My Brother	309	(1)
Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron [1824]	310	(1)
Lines on the Portrait of the Widow of Riego	311	(2)
From Prometheus Bound, And Miscellaneous Poems (1833)	313	(2)
The Death-Bed of Teresa del Riego	313	(2)
The Cry Of The Children (1843, 1844)	315	(5)
From Poems (1844)	320	(45)
Past and Future	320	(1)
To George Sand, A Desire	320	(1)
Lady Geraldine's Courtship	321	(22)
Crowned and Wedded [1840]	343	(3)
Wine of Cyprus	346	(5)
The Dead Pan	351	(8)
Caterina to Camoens	359	(6)
The Run Away Slave At Pilgrim's Point (1848, 1849, 1850)	365	(10)
From Poems (1850)	375	(24)
Flush or Faunus	375	(1)
Hiram Powers' Greek Slave	375	(1)
Hugh Stuart Boyd: His Blindness	376	(1)
Hugh Stuart Boyd: Legacies	376	(1)
Sonnets from the Portuguese [1846]	377	(22)
Cas A Guidi Windows (1851)	399	(57)
From Two Poems	456	(6)
Elizabeth Barrett
Robert Browning
A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London	456	(6)
From Poems Before Congress (1860)	462	(2)
Christmas Gifts	462	(2)
From Last Poems (1862)	464	(3)
The North and the South [1861]	464	(1)
Psyche Gazing on Cupid [1845]	465	(2)
Notes	467	(47)
Index of Titles	514	(1)
Index of First Lines	515