For most of the twentieth century the exuberant fluency of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning's art was not regarded as worthy of serious
attention. Even the evidence for the swiftness of her wit, thought and
composition remains more impressionistic and anecdotal than firmly
proven. Through close attention to original manuscript material, Josie
Billington argues that Barrett Browning's fast, fine and excitedly
vigorous and agile imaginative intelligence is Shakespearean, both in
its power, and in the creative drive and dynamic to which it gives
rise. Billington contends that for Barrett Browning, as for
Shakespeare, writing was demonstrably a creative event not a
second-order record of experience, and that Barrett Browning's
characteristic habits of composition, and her creative procedure,
resemble in significant ways those of the poet she valued most highly.
A fascinating study of both writers' analogous creative dispositions,
minds and modes.
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'This is Living Art'
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781441152121
Publisert
2020
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1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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