ROMANTIC FEATURES IN THE POETRY OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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ROMANTIC FEATURESAbstract
Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry was characterized with rare romantic sensibility. She was full of romantic zeal to be found in the great romantic poets. Her personal note, her treatment of human love, her lyrical intensity and her delicacy of feeling she also has romantic love of Nature, her sweet and melodious music, of verse and she has several qualities which link her with the great Romantics. But her romanticism is not only essential to her nature but also soaked in intellectuality. To the problem of her own age and her own sex, she supplies the romantic ideals and in the modern context presents a popular feminist poet. An intensely personal note marks Mrs. Browning’s poetry. Her ladyr’s heart is laid bare to us in the Sonnetts from the Portuguese.
References
EBB, Poetical Works, P. 310.
St. IX.
This poem was included in The Last Poems which were published after Mrs. Browning’s death.
St. VIII.
EBB, Work, P. 295.
Althea Hayter, Mes. Browning : A Poet’s Work and its Setting, (London, 1962) P. 72.
Works, P. 52.
EBB, The Lost Bower, St. II.
