Introduction
A Poem of the Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23455265 |
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| Authors | Natasha Moore (Christiani, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Victorian Poetry and Modern Life (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137537805_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2499737121 |
| ISBN | 9781137537805 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
‘I want to write a poem of a new class,’ wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as early as 1844, of the work that would eventually become Aurora Leigh . Its novelty would consist in its engagement with the daily life of the times — in Barrett Browning’s determination, as she puts it, to ‘go on, & touch this real everyday life of our age, & hold it with my two hands’. 1 Though acknowledging a precedent of sorts in Byron’s Don Juan , Barrett Browning casts herself in the role of pioneer, breaking new ground in her attempt to poeticize this first truly modern, and distinctly novelistic, age. Part modern epic, part verse-novel, Aurora Leigh was published in 1856 to enormous and instantaneous popularity. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Art · EPIC · Literature · Novelty · Poetry · Popularity · Theology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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