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Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare

By Josie Billington

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare Contemporary literature

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare

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For most of the twentieth century the exuberant fluency of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art was not regarded as worthy of serious attention. Even the evidence for the swiftness of her wit, thought and composition remains more impressionistic and anecdotal than firmly proven. Through close attention to original manuscript material, Josie Billington argues that Barrett Browning's fast, fine and excitedly vigorous and agile imaginative intelligence is Shakespearean, both in its power, and in the creative drive and dynamic to which it gives rise.  Billington contends that for Barrett Browning, as for Shakespeare, writing was demonstrably a creative event not a second-order record of experience, and that Barrett Browning's characteristic habits of composition, and her creative procedure, resemble in significant ways those of the poet she valued most highly. A fascinating study of both writers' analogous creative dispositions, minds and modes.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2011-12-08
Publication Date:
2011-12-08
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0826495982
ISBN13:
9780826495983
Weight:
411 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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