Aurora Leigh and Other Poems

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140434127
• ISBN13: 9780140434125
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.1" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher