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'A VERY BEAUTIFUL TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT': ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, THOMAS CARLYLE, AND THE ANNOTATION OF AURORA LEIGH

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From: Browning Society Notes
Date: 20080401
Author:Kinser, Brent E

He was a prophet, she a poet. In spite of constant complaints about bad digestion and poor health, he lived a long and robust life that nearly spanned the century. Her delicate health led to a much too early death, but not before she became one of the immortals of Victorian literature. They could not have been more different in terms of both their personalities and their approaches to literature. He denied the value of modern poetry, and she represented it. But they were, perhaps inexplicably, friends. Much as her work overshadowed that of her husband in life, the friendship between Robert ...

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