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"Hardly shall I tell my joys and sorrows": Robert Browning's engagement with Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetics.

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From: Victorian Poetry
Date: 20050322
Author:Martens, Britta

In 1845, WHEN ROBERT BROWNING BEGAN HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH Elizabeth Barrett (EBB), he was writing plays and dramatic monologues. He had at last developed his own, original style. However, the path he had taken was diametrically opposed to contemporary taste, which expected a lyrical poem to be the expression of the poet's personal emotions and thoughts. EBB wrote in this tradition, and in the preface to her critically acclaimed Poems of 1844, she had stressed her increasing commitment to the self-expressive mode. (1) It was to voice his admiration for this collection that ...

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