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Elizabeth Barrett Browning.(Book Review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20040801
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Simon Avery and Rebecca Stott. Longman. [pounds sterling]21.99 p. b. x + 254 pages. ISBN 0-582-40470-3. This volume in Longman's Studies in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature begins with a reminder that in her time Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'was considered a shocking poet, a risk-taker, an innovator, a rebel, an iconoclast even'. She was also, the authors, argue, reacting against female poets of her day by her innovations in language and by her writing about politics and current affairs. She was, in historic terms, a fairly representative ...

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