Sources, Influences, Confluences: Classical and pre-romantic authors
- Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
- The Seraphim and Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound
- Dante's Beatrice and 'A Vision of Poets'
- Sets out to 'complete' Milton's Paradise Lost in A Drama of Exile
- A Drama of Exile EBB intensified the more subversive characteristics of Milton's Eve
- Prometheus vs. Milton's Satan
- Influence of Alexander Pope
- Edmund Burke and the gendered sublime
Sources, Influences, Confluences: the Romantics
- Her formative years belong to the Romantic, not the Victorian period
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Wordsworth
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Keats
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Blake
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Gordon, Lord Byron — early importance
- revises Byron's representation of women in Don Juan
- A Drama of Exile alternately imitates and revises Byron's Cain
- Barrett Browning's complex critique of Romantic representations of the goat-god Pan
- Compared to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
- Romantic revolutionary idealism and millenialism in her works 1820-44
- EBB's links to 'masculine' Romanticism and to the 'Satanic School' of Byron and Shelley
- Contra Walter Scott and Lord Byron
- Like male Romantics, EBB is obsessed by poetic origins and a sense of belatedness
- Barrett Browning's poetical development and the 'patriarchal Bloomian model'
- Shares the male Romantic drive for transcendence
- Browning's own revisionary mythopoeis culminates in Aurora Leigh
Sources, Influences, Confluences: the Victorians
- Revises Carlyle's statement about man's work
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Carlyle (1)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Carlyle (2)
- Influence on Emily Dickinson
- Masculinity in Brontë, Browning, and Carlyle
- 'A Vision of Poets' and Robert Browning's Paracelsus and Sordello
- Margaret Oliphant on Aurora Leigh
- Influence of Gaskell's Ruth on Barrett Browning's combining of Madonna and the Magdalen in Marian
- Shares Ruskin's Romantic philosophy of infinite aspiration
- Economic Relations in Aurora Leigh and Great Expectations
- Borrowed Thought, Borrowed Verse? Patmore and E.B. Browning's Peculiar "Anxiety of Influence"
- Aurora and The Angel: The Poetic Intentions of Coventry Patmore and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Female Saviors in Victorian Literature
- Love or Asceticism?Aurora Leigh and Little Dorrit
- Problems of Autobiography and Fictional Autobiography in Aurora Leigh
- Realism, Myth, and the Historical Past in Aurora Leigh and The Warden
- Humility and Class in Aurora Leigh and North and South
- Susan B. Anthony saw Aurora Leigh as a vision of a new woman and a new earth
- Sonnets from the Portuguese and George Meredith's Modern Love
Critical Reception and Reputation
- Ruskin on Aurora Leigh: “the greatest poem of the century”
- “I look upon it as much the greatest work in our literature” — Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde’s “English Poetesses” — chiefly about EBB
- The Saturday and Westminster Reviews on Aurora Leigh
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning's life and career (article in the 1874 Cornhill Magazine)
- Blackwood's Magazine on Aurora Leigh
- Reforming the Feminine in Aurora Leigh
- “Hush Hush — Here’s Too Much Noise!”: Mothers, Poetic Creation, and Feminist Doubt over Aurora Leigh
- Contemporaries on Aurora Leigh
- The critical reception of Aurora Leigh
- Love and Marriage: How Biographical Interpretation affected the Reception of "Sonnets from the Portuguese"
- Barrett Browning and Periodical Journalism
Last modified 14 February 2019