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Casa Guidi Windows: A Poem

Casa Guidi Windows: A Poem

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1108060382
ISBN13: 9781108060387
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 9 2013
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In 1847, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) moved with her new husband to an apartment in Florence, in the wake of perhaps the most famous literary courtship of the nineteenth century. She soon took to calling their home the Casa Guidi. From there, she observed the events of the early Risorgimento. It was at this time that she produced some of her finest work, including Aurora Leigh and Casa Guidi Windows. An impressionistic and thoroughly atypical landmark in the Romantic canon, the latter was written in two parts, separated by several years. Beginning with the memory of a singing child and a lush description of Florence's beauty, the first part explores the air of optimism that permeates both the city and the narrator. By the second, disillusionment is rife: Florence has become the scene of demonstrations and broken political promises. This reissue of the 1851 first edition includes Barrett Browning's own introduction.

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