Questions tagged [elizabeth-barrett-browning]
For questions about the life and works of the Victorian-era English poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861).
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What inspired the “lava-lymph” in Elizabeth Browning’s “Aurora Leigh”?
In book V of Aurora Leigh (1856) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the narrator asks herself what she expects to achieve in her poetry:
Shall I hope
To speak my ...
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Why is Romney’s pattern “on his nail” in “Aurora Leigh”?
In Aurora Leigh (1856) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the character Romney Leigh has a “pattern on his nail”:
To think,—I have a pattern on my nail,
And I will carve the world new after it,
And solve ...