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1 online resource (XXIV, 173 pages) |
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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'. |
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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Elizabeth Barrett 1806-46 -- 'Glimpses Into My Own Literary Character' -- Religious Imagination -- More 'Glimpses' -- 'Happy influences' -- 'Dearest Papa would be sorry to think how much he grieved me' -- 'My first acquaintance with Elizabeth Barrett' -- 'The fatal event which saddened her bloom of youth' -- Miss Barrett at Thirty-Five -- 'The duties belonging to my femineity' -- On Poetry I: 'the object of the intellectual part of me' |
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On Poetry II: 'I want to write a new poem of a new class' -- On Poetry III: 'relations ... higher than the naked eye of the cold reasoning intellect can discern at all' -- 'I look everywhere for grandmothers and see none' -- Mr Browning's Poetry: 'A palpable power' -- 'I was as a man dying who had not read Shakespeare' -- 'I was repulsed too often' -- Part II: Robert Browning 1812-46 -- Childhood Memories -- The Poet's History -- Music -- An Unpoetical Nose -- 'Robert talks immensely' -- 'Lemon-coloured kid-gloves and such things' -- 'Long ringlets and no neck-cloth' |
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Browning's 'lion-like ruff' -- Browning and Thomas Carlyle -- 'Little Paracelsus Browning' -- Browning and Jane Carlyle -- Browning, Macready and Forster I: Strafford -- Pippa Passes -- Browning, Macready and Forster II: The Return of the Druses -- Browning, Macready and Forster III: A Blot on the 'Scutcheon -- 'Conversation ... as remarkably good as his books' -- Part III: The Brownings 1846-61 -- Marriage -- The Journey to Italy -- The Brownings, 1847 -- Story's First Impression of the Brownings -- Casa Guidi -- Florence -- Browning and the Anglo-Florentines -- 'Better than any poem' |
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Recollections of Mrs Browning -- The Brownings: a Child's View -- Browning and his Beard -- 'A countenance of April shine and shower' -- 'A face corresponding with delicate exactness to the tone of her poems' -- Browning Portraits -- 'I'll fling you down the stairs': Browning and Mr Sludge -- Tennyson and Browning perform -- 'This generous humility of nature' -- Browning at Bellosguardo -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Conversation -- Browning's 'celerity' ... or immediateness' -- The Brownings, 1850 -- 'What Mignon might be in maturity and maternity' -- 'The delight of the encounter' |
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'She talks no commonplaces' -- 'We mustn't leave the great Elizabeth alone in such a state' -- A Retrograde Step for Women -- 'Our close, stifling, corrupt system' -- 'A noble devotion to and faith in the regeneration of Italy' -- The 'logical and common-sensible' poet and the 'good and kind fairy' -- Spiritualism: 'Mrs Browning kept trying to stem his flow of eager, funny talk' -- 'The corruption of our society requires not shut doors and windows, but light and air' -- 'All poetry being a putting the infinite within the finite': Men and Women -- Writing Aurora Leigh -- With Landor at Siena |
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 -- Marriage.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. |
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Marriage. |
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Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 -- Marriage.
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Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. |
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 -- Friends and associates.
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Friends and associates. |
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Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 -- Friends and associates.
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Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Poets, English. |
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19th century |
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Biographies.
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Married people -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Married people. |
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Great Britain. |
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Friendship. |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Married people. |
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Garrett, Martin, editor.
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Print version: 0312232268 |
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Print version: 1349628964 |
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1349628948 |
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9781349628940 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-1-349-62894-0 |
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