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- Title
"Hardly Shall I Tell My Joys and Sorrows": Robert Browning's Engagement With Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetics.
- Authors
Martens, Britta
- Abstract
The article focuses on the poetic styles of poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning(EBB). While the courtship correspondence has long been recognized as the private locus for the couple's dialogue on their respective poetic styles, critics have failed to discern the pursuit by Browning of the same "dialogue" within a number of his own poems. Browning assumes that poetry can, at least in EBB's case, act as a quasi-transparent means of self-expression, while he considers himself as yet unable to reveal his self in his poetry. All three poems analyzed have shown Browning experimenting with the personal mode, making the literary text an arena for playing out the oppositions between EBB's and his own irreconcilable poetics.
- Subjects
POETS; BROWNING, Robert, 1812-1889; BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861; COURTSHIP; LOVE letters; POETRY (Literary form); CRITICS; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0019