English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1346 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Victorian Women Poets
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The idea
Victorian women poets claimed major forms: Barrett Browning the sonnet sequence and the verse novel, Emily Brontë a visionary lyric, Christina Rossetti devotional verse and "Goblin Market." Their work addressed women's limited lives, child labour and faith.
In practice
Barrett Browning, Brontë, Rossetti.
Where people slip
They wrote social and religious poetry.
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