Barrett Browning’s love affair with epic poetry began at a young age: when she was just twelve years old, she wrote The Battle of Marathon, an epic poem about the battle between the Greeks and Persians in 490 BC. Victorian poems could be long and ambitious, and this is the crowning achievement of the Victorian long poem – although really it’s as much a verse novel as it is an epic poem. Long after he has ceased to love you, just What is Goblin Market about? The fruit in the poem which the goblins sell has been interpreted in various ways: critics have long seen the eroticised description of the exotic fruit as symbolic of (sexual) temptation, with Laura as the fallen women who succumbs to masculine wiles and is ruined as a result (though she is, of course, happily married at the end of the poem).Įlizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh.Īnd I who have written much in prose and verseįor others’ uses, will write now for mine,–Īs when you paint your portrait for a friend, Probably the most famous poem Rossetti wrote, Goblin Market is a long Victorian narrative poem about two sisters, Lizzie and Laura, and how Laura succumbs to temptation and tastes the fruit sold by the goblins of the poem’s title. In this poem, she describes how Death came for her… Now, her distinctive style – using many dashes – is instantly recognisable, and the theme she returns to again and again is death. Dickinson is one of the most celebrated American poets of the nineteenth century, although her reputation as a poet was entirely posthumous: she published only a small number of poems during her lifetime, and while she was alive she was better known as a gardener than a poet. Now it’s regarded as an important development in nineteenth-century English poetry.Įmily Dickinson, ‘ Because I Could Not Stop for Death’. Despite the poem’s reputation as one of Browning’s finest dramatic monologues, it – like much of Browning’s early work – was largely ignored during his lifetime. It was one of Browning’s first great poems, published in 1836 (as ‘Porphyria’) when the poet was still in his mid-twenties, just on the eve of the Victorian era. This one is spoken by a murderer, a man who strangles his lover with her own hair. ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ is an example of the dramatic monologue form which Browning and Tennyson, in particular, pioneered in the 1830s. After Romanticism came the Victorian poets, at least in nineteenth-century Britain. Keats was inspired by hearing the sound of birdsong and penned this poem in praise of the nightingale, but in doing so he also created a fine Romantic meditation on mortality and the lure of death and escape, embodied by the beautiful bird. One of the greatest Romantic poems and perhaps Keats’s finest ode, this poem was supposedly written by Keats under a plum tree in the garden of Keats House, London in May 1819.
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