ENGL 3007 Lecture Notes - Roman Citizenship, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• School: Carleton University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 3007
• Professor: Andrew Wallace

Document Summary

Browning is himself a man who spirits away a woman away: elizabeth barrett browning. She is a well-known poet already and her father believes that browning is a fortune-hunter and untrustworthy. well-known poet already and her father believes that browning is a fortune-hunter and untrustworthy. One day when her family is out they escape for a part of the day to get secretly married. After a week they escape off to italy. they escape off to italy. Relationship to these poem to epics: drawing formally on other poets. For a victorian audience, a 12 book poem leaves hanging int he back of their minds the epic tradition. In the background: dante, book poem leaves hanging int he back of their minds the epic tradition. In roman epic, dead and dying women assume a thematic prominence: female corpse is central to.