Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning by Garrett M (9780333683729)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (Book)
Garrett M Release Date: 23 Jul 2000 Format: Hardback Category: Language Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780333683729 ISBN-10: 0333683722
This text gathers accounts of the two poets from her precocious childhood to his death in Venice. Comments from contemporaries (including Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, Tennyson, and Henry James) and from the poets themselves give a range of perspectives on their politics, relationships, religious beliefs, ambitions and working habits, and personal appearance. Persistent images - Barrett Browning the frail recluse or Browning the loud and trivial talker with no apparent connection with Browning the poet - can be seen both establishing themselves and being qualified, rejected, or complicated.