Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-245) and index.
Contents
Introduction: a poet lost and regained / Simon Avery -- Constructing the poet Laureate of Hope End: Elizabeth Barrett's early life / Simon Avery -- Audacious beginnings: Elizabeth Barrett's early writings / Simon Avery -- Culture of the soul: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetics / Rebecca Stott -- Voice of a decade: Elizabeth Barrett's political writings of the 1840s / Simon Avery -- Genre: a chapter on form / Rebecca Stott -- 'How do I love thee?': love and marriage / Rebecca Stott -- 'Twixt church and palace of a Florence street': Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Italy / Simon Avery -- 'Where angels fear to tread': Aurora Leigh / Rebecca Stott.