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Title: Aurora Leigh
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Narrator: Diana Quick
Format: Abridged
Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-26-15
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's classic poem, read by Diana Quick.
Written in blank verse, Aurora Leigh is Browning's self-styled novel in verse', a first-person narration of the lives of Marian Erle and the eponymous Aurora.
Travelling across Florence, London, and Paris, and playing off the works of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël and George Sand, Aurora Leigh is one of the greatest poems of the 19th century.
Members Reviews:
As If Jane Eyre Were Written by Shakespeare
Having been brought up on the notion that Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the slighter and less-talented adjunct poet of her husband Robert, I was pleased to find I was wrong.
She's terrific.
This is a brilliant work, full of dazzling poetry and insights.
It's loaded with allusions and references (I read the Penguin edition; and the notes there run for many, many pages--and these barely skim the surface), but it is remarkably accessible and fun.
This is a work full of wisdom and unusual perspectives. Luminous and grand and down-to-earth all at once. Imagine Jane Eyre written by Shakespeare.
It's an education in Victorian (upper-middle-class) England, and also the Victorian English infatuation with Italy. It's also a biting and incisive feminist portrait, full of rebellion and self-discovery.
I strongly recommend it to anyone who likes poetry, or Victorian novels.
Very nice collection of poetry
Wonderful poetry. If you enjoy the art of poetry this is a great collection.
Five Stars
This is so beautiful. It's not an "easy" read, as it is entirely in poetry...but it's worth working for!
Charming
I really enjoy reading this poem. I am very glad I have founded in a Kindle version.Definitely worth reading. Enjoy!
"This is soul, this is life, this word is being said in heaven ..."
While I've reviewed a different edition of just "Aurora Leigh" previously, this volume containing not only the book-length novel-in-blank-verse but a generous selection of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's other poems, including the full "Sonnets from the Portuguese" sequence, is perfect for any reader who wants to explore this superb writer's oeuvre in depth.
"Aurora Leigh" remains immensely readable, with a strong, intelligent narrator who knows what she wants & refuses to settle for the sedate roles reserved for genteel, well-read women of her time. It's a romance, a Bildungsroman, a novel of ideas & philosophy; and it moves with the fluid grace & momentum of a fine film, replete with sparkling wit & well-matched adversaries/lovers. I've read it more than once & constantly find new delights in its supple, finely-crafted lines. The poem & the character both deserve to be better known.
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." Who doesn't know this line? Yet so many people have never gone beyond that single sonnet to savor the entire sequence, which recounts & celebrates Robert Browning's courtship of Elizabeth Barrett, which ended in their elopement to Italy. For a passionate, precise examination of a woman's soul in the luxuriant throes of overpowering love, these sonnets have rarely been matched.
The other poems are a good sampling of the author's eye & ear as a poet.
