Aurora Leigh: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

I have yet to read this quite since I purchased it for some graduate courses, but the quality is good! I believe I bought it 'Good' quality, and it sticks to its promises. (Not all independent sellers are truly honest about the state of their books.) The writing that is present is not overbearing so the text is still readable. Thanks so much!

Having been brought up on the notion that Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the slighter and less-talented adjunct poet of her husband Robert, I was pleased to find I was wrong.She's terrific.This is a brilliant work, full of dazzling poetry and insights.It's loaded with allusions and references (I read the Penguin edition; and the notes there run for many, many pages--and these barely skim the surface), but it is remarkably accessible and fun.This is a work full of wisdom and unusual perspectives. Luminous and grand and down-to-earth all at once. Imagine Jane Eyre written by Shakespeare.It's an education in Victorian (upper-middle-class) England, and also the Victorian English infatuation with Italy. It's also a biting and incisive feminist portrait, full of rebellion and self-discovery.I strongly recommend it to anyone who likes poetry, or Victorian novels.

I got the book and it worked well for school but it wasn't the version shown.

I think I have always secretly wanted to be EBB/Aurora Leigh and that is why this text about the profound power of writing and the staggering beauty of reading gives my soul hope. Plus, it's a novel in verse. Could YOU write a novel in verse? The Norton Editon's critical material is useful, even if some of the notes are superfluous.