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Aurora Leigh's radical youth: derridean parergon and the narrative frame in "A Vision of Poets".

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From: Victorian Poetry
Date: 20061222
Author:Johnson, Stephanie L.

With the publication of Aurora Leigh in 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning not only offered readers a poetic work that rivaled Wordsworth's The Prelude in innovation of form and content but also identified this work as the pinnacle of her career. In the dedication to her cousin John Kenyon, she describes it as "the most mature of my works, and the one into which my highest convictions upon Life and Art have entered." (1) Following her lead, critics since the 1970s have often either discounted her shorter and earlier poetry or considered it merely as a foundation for the greater work ...

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