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unfortunately I don't know enough about EBB to ask a sensible question but would like to be remembered to Isobel as a one time student, she was my tutor in 1974/5 when I was Judith Hodgkinson and she was spectacular, thus so were my end of first year results! Thank you and wonderful to see you, I will listen again.
Beloved Iris (Inspired by the late great Eizabeth Barrett Browning) Yesternoon, a cruel orb shrouded the sun At a most beautiful peak of our love, Thereafter, the life of my life was done; Hence, the flowery iris of mine eyes Wept wretchedly to quickly lose all of A lovely sunlit paradise once there; Yet soon etiolate and slowly dies A lonesome demise, born of my despair. Tonight, the heartbreaking story of our Love, is an epitaph painfully writ And narrated hour after lonely hour; As solemn as a melodious dirge Sung only in praise of thine earthly bit. Beloved Iris, the pure strength of thy bough Once held a fragile link of my life’s verge; Alas, only heaven awaits me now.
Thank you for tuning into Professor Isobel Armstrong’s 10-Minute Talk. After the talk, Isobel will be available for 20-minutes to type responses to a selection of audience questions in the RUclips comments section. Please reply to this comment with any questions you may have, and she will do her best to answer as many as possible. Many thanks and we hope you enjoy the talk.
Question via email: What authors did Elizabeth herself admire? Answer: She deeply respected the generation of women poets just before her - Mrs Hemans, Letitia Landon. She read Mary Wollstonecraft early in her life, so EBB belonged to a tradition of questioning. She and Robert Browning discussed contemporaries and particularly Dickens, addressing the differences between the novel and poetry.
Hi Isobel, I had the pleasure of your tutelage at Birkbeck, years ago. Great thanks to you. I love the Greek mythological elements in EBB's poetry. Are there any other classically themed works of hers I ought to look at? What other themes does she cover?
Good afternoon Isobel. You were my fabulous tutor at the University of Leicester 1975 - 1978. I remember some years ago watching a play with my mother on EBB and RB; I think Jane Lapotaire played EBB and my mother, who wasn't a reader, enjoyed it very much. Are theere any representations of EBB in literature or the media you particularly enjoy? Offhand I can only think of Flush by Virginia Woolf, and the play/film The Barretts of Wimpole St (also a favlourite of my mother!) Is this because it is seen as a romantic story?
EVE IS A TWOFOLD MYSTERY --THE STILLNESS EARTH DOTH KEEP, THE MOTION WHEREWITH HUMAN HEART --DO TO EACH OTHER LEAP AS IF ALL SOUNDS BETWEEN THE POLES --FELT PARTING COMES IN SLEEP ~E.B. BROWNING~ V
Thank you very much for your questions and to Isobel for her time. Our next British Academy 10-Minute Talk will be given by Professor Fiona Stafford FBA on Wednesday 8 July, 13:00. Subscribe to our channel to be notified of this and sign up to our newsletter for updates and other interesting things to read, watch and listen: eepurl.com/gaThWL.
I love British poetry .
unfortunately I don't know enough about EBB to ask a sensible question but would like to be remembered to Isobel as a one time student, she was my tutor in 1974/5 when I was Judith Hodgkinson and she was spectacular, thus so were my end of first year results! Thank you and wonderful to see you, I will listen again.
I was at Leicester 1975 - 1978, we may have seen each other in the English Dept in the Attneborough Tower!
Her poems are amazing! I have one of them on my channel, the beautiful sonnet 43, How do I love thee
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: suas poesias aquecem o coração há gerações. 📖
I have the book written by Christopher ricks the Brownings letters and poems. I find their work very moving
Beloved Iris (Inspired by the late great Eizabeth Barrett Browning)
Yesternoon, a cruel orb shrouded the sun
At a most beautiful peak of our love,
Thereafter, the life of my life was done;
Hence, the flowery iris of mine eyes
Wept wretchedly to quickly lose all of
A lovely sunlit paradise once there;
Yet soon etiolate and slowly dies
A lonesome demise, born of my despair.
Tonight, the heartbreaking story of our
Love, is an epitaph painfully writ
And narrated hour after lonely hour;
As solemn as a melodious dirge
Sung only in praise of thine earthly bit.
Beloved Iris, the pure strength of thy bough
Once held a fragile link of my life’s verge;
Alas, only heaven awaits me now.
Excellent
She, EBB, together with Marie Curie where my women rolemodels when I was a young girl, living in Belgium.
Thank you for tuning into Professor Isobel Armstrong’s 10-Minute Talk. After the talk, Isobel will be available for 20-minutes to type responses to a selection of audience questions in the RUclips comments section. Please reply to this comment with any questions you may have, and she will do her best to answer as many as possible. Many thanks and we hope you enjoy the talk.
I'd like to know her thoughts on where Elizabeths experience of illness intersects with her writing
Could you say more about how EBB transformed the sonnet?
Also - was her husband ever jealous of her greater, in their lifetimes, success?
Question via email: What authors did Elizabeth herself admire?
Answer: She deeply respected the generation of women poets just before her - Mrs Hemans, Letitia Landon. She read Mary Wollstonecraft early in her life, so EBB belonged to a tradition of questioning. She and Robert Browning discussed contemporaries and particularly Dickens, addressing the differences between the novel and poetry.
Hi Isobel, I had the pleasure of your tutelage at Birkbeck, years ago. Great thanks to you. I love the Greek mythological elements in EBB's poetry. Are there any other classically themed works of hers I ought to look at? What other themes does she cover?
Good afternoon Isobel. You were my fabulous tutor at the University of Leicester 1975 - 1978. I remember some years ago watching a play with my mother on EBB and RB; I think Jane Lapotaire played EBB and my mother, who wasn't a reader, enjoyed it very much. Are theere any representations of EBB in literature or the media you particularly enjoy? Offhand I can only think of Flush by Virginia Woolf, and the play/film The Barretts of Wimpole St (also a favlourite of my mother!) Is this because it is seen as a romantic story?
EVE IS A TWOFOLD MYSTERY
--THE STILLNESS EARTH DOTH KEEP, THE MOTION WHEREWITH HUMAN HEART
--DO TO EACH OTHER LEAP AS IF ALL SOUNDS BETWEEN THE POLES
--FELT PARTING COMES IN SLEEP
~E.B. BROWNING~
V