Two of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Pan poems and their after-life in Robert Browning's "Pan and Luna".(The Dead Pan)(A Musical Instrument)

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From: Victorian Poetry
Date: 20061222
Author:Davies, Corinne

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Dead Pan" (1844) and "A Musical Instrument" (Cornhill Magazine, 1860) draw on the figure of the goat-god Pan to deal with aesthetic issues of poetic process and product, with theological issues of belief and godhead, and with complex cultural issues of sexual desire and violation of the woman. After her death, Robert Browning (RB) edited EBB's Last Poems, 1862 which included "A Musical Instrument." Much later, he, too, utilizes the figure of Pan in "Pan and Luna" (1880) and like EBB in "A Musical Instrument" revises the politics and dynamics of ...

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