Dickinson and "that Foreign Lady" Symbiosis 4.1 51-65
Author: Ann Swyderski
Pages: 18 pages
This micro-ebook, "Dickinson and ‘that Foreign Lady – ’" by Ann Swyderski, offers a profound analysis of the influence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Emily Dickinson. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay explores the deep literary connections and the thematic interplay between the works of these two renowned poets. Swyderski delves into Dickinson's elegies and how Barrett Browning's legacy impacted her creative expression, providing readers with a rich, scholarly perspective on 19th-century poetry and female literary traditions.
Author: Ann Swyderski
Pages: 18 pages
This micro-ebook, "Dickinson and ‘that Foreign Lady – ’" by Ann Swyderski, offers a profound analysis of the influence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Emily Dickinson. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay explores the deep literary connections and the thematic interplay between the works of these two renowned poets. Swyderski delves into Dickinson's elegies and how Barrett Browning's legacy impacted her creative expression, providing readers with a rich, scholarly perspective on 19th-century poetry and female literary traditions.
Author: Ann Swyderski
Pages: 18 pages
This micro-ebook, "Dickinson and ‘that Foreign Lady – ’" by Ann Swyderski, offers a profound analysis of the influence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Emily Dickinson. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay explores the deep literary connections and the thematic interplay between the works of these two renowned poets. Swyderski delves into Dickinson's elegies and how Barrett Browning's legacy impacted her creative expression, providing readers with a rich, scholarly perspective on 19th-century poetry and female literary traditions.
 "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" |
