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This extraordinary manuscript is Elizabeth Barrett Browning's heavily revised autograph working notebook for The Seraphim, and Other Poems, the book that first brought her fame.This notebook contains drafts of all of the major poems in The Seraphim, published by Saunders and Otley in 1838. This work helped to establish her as one of the most important poets of her day. In addition, the manuscript contains nine other poems that remain unpublished as well as countless otherwise unknown lines not used in the published text.
This visually dramatic notebook is crowded with Elizabeth Barrett's manuscript revisions, making it a vital untapped source for the study of the poet's working methods and artistic development. She has filled the notebook's pages with her verse in her minuscule hand. Painstaking revisions reflect the intensity of her process. Many abandoned passages—some quite long—are known only from the survival of this volume.
The Seraphim was the first work that Elizabeth Barrett issued under… Leer más