Foiled by Pleasure
Matthew Bevis: Barrett Browning, 30 August 2018
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Writings
edited by Josie Billington and Philip Davis.
Oxford, 592 pp., £14.99, February 2018,978 0 19 879763 0 Show More
edited by Josie Billington and Philip Davis.
Oxford, 592 pp., £14.99, February 2018,
“... she’s on the side of art regardless of which side art is on. In their selection of her writings, Josie Billington and Philip Davis have wisely decided not to include much from her early collections (Aurora Leigh occupies around two-thirds of the space the volume devotes to poetry). Still, what they do include occasionally glints with better things to ... ”