Elizabeth Barrett Browning's religious poetics: Congregationalist models of hymnist and preacher.

From: Victorian Poetry | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Dieleman, Karen | Copyright information

In recent work on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's conception of the poet figure, several critics have situated Aurora Leigh within the context of Victorian sage discourse. Sage discourse, defined by John Holloway as the expression of "notions about the world, man's place in it, and how he should live," appealed to Victorian writers as a mode of expression because the rapidly shifting dynamics of their age seemed to call either for new understandings of human significance or for the re...

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