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"Dickinson again recorded her reverence for the ‘Foreign Lady’ in poem #312 ‘Her – “last Poems” – ’ commemorating the volume of poetry published posthumously in 1862. This volume compiled by Robert Browning, from a selection made by his wife, was a mixture of old and new poems of which approximately a third explored male-female relationships. Barrett Browning exposed existing ‘double standards’ in ballads such as ‘Lord Walter’s wife’, but also reaffirmed the power of love and celebrated sexual passion in ‘Bianca among the Nightingales’. She returned to the question of poetic creativity in one of the last poems that she wrote—‘A Musical Instrument’—a poem, which reveals some of the tensions faced by a woman poet" |
