English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1320 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Aurora Leigh
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The idea
Aurora Leigh, of eighteen fifty-six, is a verse novel in nine books of blank verse about a woman poet. The anchor calls it a hybrid novel-poem that depicts the limits placed on women's public and private ambitions.
In practice
A woman poet's life in blank verse.
Where people slip
Verse novel: a novel told in verse.
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