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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh
#elizabeth barrett browning#aurora leigh#poetry#poem#epic poem#fragments#typo#typography#words#witch#dreamer#this is so me coded#*
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#elizabeth barrett browning#life#vita#frase#frasi#quotes#quote#citazione#citation#citazioni#citations#strega#witch#studiosa#studying#poetessa#poet#sognatrice#dreamer#aurora leigh
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@all-you-had-to-do-was-neigh
Others parts in my 'narrative poems' tag.
The second poll is almost ready but I take suggestions for the third !
Other poems in my 'poetry' tags (Frost, Angelou, British Romanticism so far, French poetry next).
Good luck making a pick. There are quite a few of my favorites here.
Aurora Leigh
The Ballad of the Harp Weaver
The Highwayman
Metamorphoses
Goblin Market
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Iliad
Beowulf
The Epic of Gilgamesh
#polls#narrative poems#poetry#aurora leigh#elizabeth barrett browning#the ballad of the harp weaver#edna st vincent millay#the highwayman#alfred noyes#metamorphoses#ovid#goblin market#christina rossetti#la belle dame sans merci#john keats#iliad#homer#beowulf#the epic of gilgamesh
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Eloise Bridgerton is exactly what Elizabeth Barrett Browning had in mind when writing Aurora Leigh
the last photo is “the tryst” by Arthur Hughes & is Aurora Leigh’s dismissal of Romney
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AURORA LEIGH by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#beautiful books#book blog#books books books#book cover#books#vintage books#poetry#book design#book binding#aurora leigh#elizabeth barrett browning
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My father’s sister started when she caught My soul agaze in my eyes. She could not say I had no business with a sort of soul, But plainly she objected, - and demurred That souls were dangerous things to carry straight Through all the split saltpetre of the world. She said sometimes ‘Aurora, have you done Your task this morning? have you read that book? And are you ready for the crochet here?’ As if she said ‘I know there’s something wrong; I know I have not ground you down enough To flatten and bake you to a wholesome crust For household uses and properties, Before the rain has got into my barn And set the grains a-spouting. What, you’re green With outdoor impudence? you almost grow?’
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
#aurora leigh#elizabeth barrett browning#1856#1850s#19th century#english literature#poetry#queue pierce my soul
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I was over-analysing the fact that Rochester goes blind and so does Romney Leigh. And then I remembered that as a teen, before I'd read either book, I also wrote a story with a romantic hero that goes blind. Projecting all my issues onto Victorian writers
#oh ebb and charlotte#we're really in it now#what does this mean for us???#jane eyre#aurora leigh#elizabeth barrett browning#charlotte bronte
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning reading Tennyson's The Princess
#british#tracer#overwatch#ow#elizabeth barrett browning#aurora leigh#alfred lord tennyson#tennyson#the princess#poetry#epic poem#literature#books
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I've just acquired a copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's verse novel Aurora Leigh which I am very excited to start reading but can I just take a moment to draw attention to this arresting cover image.
It's a photograph of the French dancer Cléo de Mérode taken by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger, a German-Jewish photographer who took some truly exquisite images. It's also highly anachronistic since neither model or photographer were even born when Aurora Leigh was published in 1856 (naughty Oxford University Press!) but every time I see it lying around the house I'm drawn to it. So a good cover in that sense I think!
Some more photographs by Reutlinger:
French Soprano Aino Ackté
French actress Geneviève Lantelme
Poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand (the guy who wrote Cyrano de Bergerac)
#elizabeth barrett browning#Elizabeth Barrett#cléo de mérode#Léopold-Émile Reutlinger#Aino Ackté#Geneviève Lantelme#cyrano de bergerac#edmond rostand#aurora leigh#nineteenth century#fashion photography#art photography#vintage photography#edwardian#book cover#books#victorian#classic literature#english literature#literary
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books, books, books!
aurora leigh, i. 833-44, elizabeth barrett browning
#a little obsessed with ebb atm#studyblr#light academia#dark academia#english literature#english lit student#elizabeth barrett browning#aurora leigh#poetry#poetry quotes#victorian poetry#victorian literature#books#bookblr
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Book unwrapping. I have been looking for a copy of this under £20 for a looooooooong time. 😍
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There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter of this world.
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“Therefore, this same world Uncomprehended by you must remain Uninfluenced by you. Women as you are, Mere women, personal and passionate, You give us doting mothers, and chaste wives. Sublime Madonnas, and enduring saints! We get no Christ from you,—and verily We shall not get a poet, in my mind.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
(via Poetry and Feminism | Poetry Foundation)
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Of writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others’ uses, will write now for mine,— Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, Book 1)
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‘I perceive. The headache is too noble for my sex. You think the heartache would sound decenter, Since that’s the woman’s special, proper ache, And altogether tolerable, except To a woman.’
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
#aurora leigh#elizabeth barrett browning#1856#1850s#19th century#english literature#poetry#queue pierce my soul
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