#aurora leigh

[flowerytale]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh

[thelastofthebookworms]

@all-you-had-to-do-was-neigh

Others parts in my 'narrative poems' tag.

The second poll is almost ready but I take suggestions for the third !

Other poems in my 'poetry' tags (Frost, Angelou, British Romanticism so far, French poetry next).

Good luck making a pick. There are quite a few of my favorites here.

Aurora Leigh

The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

The Highwayman

Metamorphoses

Goblin Market

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Iliad

Beowulf

The Epic of Gilgamesh

[umi-no-onnanoko]

[thebeautifulbook]

AURORA LEIGH by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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You never can be satisfied with praise Which men give women when they judge a book Not as mere work but as mere woman’s work, Expressing the comparative respect Which means the absolute scorn. ‘Oh, excellent,  ‘What grace, what facile turns, what fluent sweeps, ‘What delicate discernment...almost thought! ‘The book does honour to the sex, we hold.  ‘Among our female authors we make room ‘For this fair writer, and congratulate  ‘The country that produces in these times ‘Such women, competent to...spell.’

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

[hasmoneanbulbasaur]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning reading Tennyson's The Princess

[yourbespokeartisanalapocalypse]

I've just acquired a copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's verse novel Aurora Leigh which I am very excited to start reading but can I just take a moment to draw attention to this arresting cover image.

It's a photograph of the French dancer Cléo de Mérode taken by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger, a German-Jewish photographer who took some truly exquisite images. It's also highly anachronistic since neither model or photographer were even born when Aurora Leigh was published in 1856 (naughty Oxford University Press!) but every time I see it lying around the house I'm drawn to it. So a good cover in that sense I think!

Some more photographs by Reutlinger:

French Soprano Aino Ackté

French actress Geneviève Lantelme

Poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand (the guy who wrote Cyrano de Bergerac)

[cobwebs-in-sues-closet]

books, books, books!

aurora leigh, i. 833-44, elizabeth barrett browning

[105nt]

Book unwrapping. I have been looking for a copy of this under £20 for a looooooooong time. 😍

[eminent-victoriana]

Romney Leigh is like if you took the good sides of Rochester and St John Rivers and just put them together

[aliteraryprincess]

October Wrap Up

October is the most wonderful time of the year for two reasons. First, it’s finally fall! And second, it’s Victober, a month dedicated to reading Victorian literature! (As if that’s not my whole degree anyway haha.) I’m kind of sad it’s over. It’s been fun watching everyone’s videos over on YouTube. 

Books Read: 7

I read less than I’ve read in the last few months, but most of them were great, which makes me happy. My favorite was The Beth Book by Sarah Grand, and my least favorite was Robert Browning’s Selected Poems. I’m just not a poetry person. Starred titles are audiobooks and ones marked with ® are rereads.     

The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill - 4 stars 

Selected Poems by Robert Browning - 2 stars

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix - 4 stars *

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - 4 stars ®

The Beth Book by Sarah Grand - 4.5 stars

Dracula by Bram Stoker - 4 stars ®

Aurora Leigh and Other Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 3 stars

On Tumblr:

I’ve got some lists on here, which means I didn’t want to do my work. 😆 Can you really blame me though? Making lists of books is a lot more fun than grading.

September Wrap Up

Book Quotes: The Beth Book by Sarah Grand

Book Quotes: The Beth Book by Sarah Grand

aliteraryprincess’ One Read and One To-Be-Read

Victorian Literature aliteraryprincess Has Read - 2022 Update

On YouTube:

And there’s tons here, including five videos specifically for Victober!

September Wrap Up - 10 books!

The Think Twice Book Tag

Underrated Victorian Recommendations #4

“Happy” Victorian Recommendations

Victober Currently Reading

My Top 10 Victorian Novels

Reread Dracula and Watching Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

[wellconstructedsentences]

There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter of this world.

Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[studyffocation]

this year's poetry class goes so hard. real knowledge about victorian poetry is gonna make me so much worse.

[kosmik-signals]

“Therefore, this same world  Uncomprehended by you must remain  Uninfluenced by you. Women as you are,  Mere women, personal and passionate,  You give us doting mothers, and chaste wives.  Sublime Madonnas, and enduring saints! We get no Christ from you,—and verily  We shall not get a poet, in my mind.”

                                                  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

(via Poetry and Feminism | Poetry Foundation)

[quotation--marks]

‘I perceive.  The headache is too noble for my sex.  You think the heartache would sound decenter, Since that’s the woman’s special, proper ache, And altogether tolerable, except  To a woman.’

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh