Fresh Strange Music: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Language

by Donald S. Hair

Elizabeth Barrett Browning evokes several figures as muses for her poetry, and one recurring type is the music master. While her writing has always been recognized as highly experimental, the influence and use of music in her work have not been fully examined. Fresh Strange Music defines the exact nature of Browning's experiments and innovations in rhythm, which she called the "animal life" of poetry, and in sound repetition, which she labelled her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077354593X
• ISBN13: 9780773545939
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"