![]() ![]() While Barrett Browning is best known these days for Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), a series of love poems to her husband, we will focus on the epic novel-poem, Aurora Leigh, published in 1856 and read by Dickinson in the late 1850s-early 1860s. Many consider Barrett Browning to be Dickinson’s most important and beloved literary foremother.Įlizabeth Barrett Browning We will explore what drew Dickinson to Barrett Browning, from a literary as well as a personal perspective. If you touch her Grave, put one hand on the Head for me – her unmentioned Mourner.ĭickinson knew that Bowles would try to visit the grave of this famous writer because he took two books with him on his tour: the Bible and Barrett Browning’s epic poem Aurora Leigh. This week we explore the influence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) on Dickinson, occasioned by Dickinson's request in a letter to Samuel Bowles, who was traveling in Europe for his health, that ![]() Only three portraits hung in the corner bedroom of a very selective Emily Dickinson: Thomas Carlyle, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. ![]()
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