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- Title
"The child's sob in the silence curses deeper": Language of Voice and Dialogue of Reform in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Cry of the Children".
- Authors
Fitzpatrick, Reilly L.
- Abstract
The article critiques the poem "The Cry of the Children," by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Topics mentioned include Browning's poetic reputation or artistic vision to emphasize the need to have industrial reform to end the suffering of working children, Browning's role of being a voice for the voiceless, and the analysis of Browning's rhetoric of voice and poem's dialogic paradigm.
- Subjects
CRY of the Children, The (Poem : Browning); BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861; WOMEN poets; POETRY (Literary form); LITERARY criticism; CHILD labor; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2023, Vol 61, Issue 3, p285
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2023.a915652