Characterization in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poems

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The early poems

• Prometheus, 'the Romantic hero, on a superhuman scale'

Aurora Leigh

• Aurora as Carlylean prophet
• Aurora Leigh's blindness to her own emotions
• Aurora Simply Wants to Fly
• Aurora Leigh as a Type of Miriam
• The artist woman is similar to those in Charlotte Bront� and George Eliot
• Introduction: Characterization in Fiction

Last modified 11 June 2014