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An ebbigrammar of motives; or, ba for short.(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

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From: Victorian Poetry
Date: 20061222
Author:Tucker, Herbert F.

 
         worked and worn by passionate debates, 
   And losing by the loss it apprehends, 
   The flesh rocks round and every breath it sends 
   Is ravelled to a sigh. All tortured states 
   Suppose a straitened place. 
 
--EBB, "Finite and Infinite" (1850), ll. 5-9 (1) 

Just as Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the start of her third century has quite come of age, so have Barrett Browning studies come firmly into their majority, after a latency period and some feisty adolescence. If our honored poet was a rather lost saint a hundred years ago, by now we have found her again. (2) ...

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