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Elizabeth Barrett's Influence on Browning's Poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

John W. Cunliffe
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There are many well-established cases of the influence of an earlier on a later poet—of Marlowe on Shakspere, of Spenser on Keats, of Keats on Tennyson, for instance; but it is not often that we have so clear an example of interaction between contemporaries as that of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. In these days of minute scholarship, it seems strange that so remarkable an instance should (so far as I am aware) have escaped detailed examination, in spite of the unwearying activity of graduate schools and Browning Societies. Both for its human and for its literary interest, the case seems worth presenting, at any rate in broad outline.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , 1908 , pp. 169 - 183
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1908

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References

page 178 note 1 See The Ring and the Book, xii, 835–867.

page 183 note 1 Browning began a poem on Napoleon and the Italian question in 1859, but destroyed it after Villafranca. (Letters of E. B. B., ii, 368–9.) He appears to have returned to the subject a little later (Ibid., 388, and Herford, 167). Mrs. Browning in May, 1860, describes it merely as “a long poem which I have not seen a line of.”

page 183 note 2 Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher, p. 275.