The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett by Daniel Karlin

The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett by Daniel Karlin

In 1846 Elizabeth Barrett rose from an invalid's bed to elope to Italy with Robert Browning. The secret courtship of the two poets--their long correspondence and their meetings in the shadow of Elizabeth's despotic and jealous father--has become one of the most famous and best-documented Victorian romances. The powerful myth of chivalrous rescue and miraculous recovery is the subject of Daniel Karlin's exciting and imaginative book. He gives a fresh account of the events of the courtship, based on a much closer study of the love letters than has been attempted before; and he shows how significant these letters are for an interpretation of the work of both poets.

Daniel Karlin, Winterstoke Professor of English Literature, University of Bristol

Daniel Karlin is Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol. He has previously held appointments at the University of Sheffield, at Boston University, and at University College London. His research spans poetry and fiction of the long nineteenth century; he has
particular interests in the poetry of Robert Browning, in the writings of Walt Whitman, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Marcel Proust, and in the relations between poetry and song. His most recent book is The Figure of the Singer (Oxford University Press, 2013).

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ISBN 13	9780192820396
ISBN 10	0192820397
Title	The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett
Author	Daniel Karlin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1987-05-01
Number of pages	304
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