ENGL200B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Educated by her father with her sisters. Wrote long intense poems in greek, which was well intense. Her parents allowed her to publish her work, and she became famous as a young woman poet. Robert browning was a fan of her work and they got married and she left her house for once! Not actually translations it was a rouse so that people would not know the true meaning behind them. Victorians were attracted to translating literature, especially old literature. Would have been controversial due to its frank writing about a woman"s love for a much younger man to whom she is not married. Theocritus appealing to ancient greek philosopher. She read him in greek ( as i mused it in his antique tongue )! Victorians were the masters of kink (pulling back her hair). ! trying to get someone to name you. Struggling to get past a series of self-imposed barriers. He is a guest to the queen.
