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Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning

Interviews and Recollections

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  1. Martin Garrett
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Table of contents (104 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Elizabeth Barrett 1806–46

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. ‘Glimpses Into My Own Literary Character’

      • Elizabeth Barrett
      Pages 3-4

    3. Religious Imagination

      • Elizabeth Barrett
      Pages 4-5

    4. More ‘Glimpses’

      • Elizabeth Barrett
      Pages 5-7

    5. ‘Happy influences’

      • Anne Thackeray Ritchie
      Pages 7-8

    6. ‘Dearest Papa would be sorry to think how much he grieved me’

      • Elizabeth Barrett
      Pages 8-10

    7. ‘My first acquaintance with Elizabeth Barrett’

      • Mary Russell Mitford
      Pages 10-11

    8. ‘The fatal event which saddened her bloom of youth’

      • Mary Russell Mitford
      Pages 11-12

    9. Miss Barrett at Thirty-Five

      • Mary Russell Mitford
      Pages 12-13

    10. ‘The duties belonging to my femineity’

      • Elizabeth Barrett
      Pages 14-15

    11. On Poetry I: ‘the object of the intellectual part of me’

      • Elizabeth Barrett
      Pages 15-15

    12. On Poetry II: ‘I want to write a new poem of a new class’

      • Elizabeth Barrett
      Pages 15-16

    13. On Poetry III: ‘relations … higher than the naked eye of the cold reasoning intellect can discern at all’

      • Elizabeth Barrett
      Pages 16-17

    14. ‘I look everywhere for grandmothers and see none’

      • Elizabeth Barrett
      Pages 17-17

    15. Mr Browning’s Poetry: ‘A palpable power’

      • Elizabeth Barrett
      Pages 18-19

    16. ‘I was as a man dying who had not read Shakespeare’

      • Elizabeth Barrett
      Pages 19-21

    17. ‘I was repulsed too often’

      • Elizabeth Barrett
      Pages 21-23

  3. Robert Browning 1812–46

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Childhood Memories

      • Alexandra Orr
      Pages 27-30
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About this book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections gathers accounts of the two poets from her precocious childhood to his death in Venice. Comments by Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, Alfred Tennyson, Henry James, Edmund Gosse and the Brownings themselves are included together with the reports or recollections of many less well known contemporaries. There is material on Barrett Browning's relationship with her father, her spiritualism, appearance, ambitions and convictions as a poet, and `devotion to and faith in the regeneration of Italy'; and on Browning's early friendship with Carlyle, his fraught relationship with Macready and the theatre, his love of fine clothes and society, and work habits. Some contemporary accounts construct, while others reject or qualify, familiar images of the poets: Barrett Browning as the frail, safely female recluse, for instance, or Browning as the loud and trivial talker who was so different from his poetry that for James there were simply `two Brownings'.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning

  • Book Subtitle: Interviews and Recollections

  • Editors: Martin Garrett

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62894-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-23226-9Published: 30 September 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-62894-0Published: 12 June 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 173

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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