THE HOME FRONT IN ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING'S 'MOTHER AND POET' AND 'THE RUNAWAY SLAVE AT PILGRIM'S POINT'

From: Browning Society Notes | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

'Mother and Poet' exemplifies a key aspect of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's arspoetica articulated m Aurora Leigh: that poets should write about their day, rather than about the past only. Not recollected in tranquility, this late poem (1861) is a claim for recognition of the sacrifices made by those left behind in war that nevertheless does not deny that war may be a necessity, completing the project of Aurora Leigh as epic: the complication of the masculine literary tradition.1

In the introduction to Arms and the Woman, Helen Cooper discusses 'Mother and Poet' as well as Barrett Browning's ...

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