But the anxiety evident in EBB
's preface about the reception of A Drama of Exile proved to be well founded. James Ferrier
, the Blackwood's reviewer, regretted that she had ventured to tread...
Literary responses
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Holmes
claimed that a rare poetic beauty belongs to these noble poems; they are full of the highest and noblest inspiration.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. “Introduction”. Sonnets and Songs (1880), edited by Cody Fife and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, pp. 5-13.
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In their introduction to the 1998 edition, scholars Cody Fife
and Terence Allan Hoagwood
Textual Features
Jean Ingelow
The work's title poem is a lengthy epic retelling of the story of Noah's ark from the Bible. Scholar Terence Allan Hoagwood
likens it to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's A Drama of Exile and...
Textual Production
Violet Fane
Mary Montgomerie Singleton published a volume of poems, From Dawn to Noon. She used the pseudonym Violet Fane, supposedly to avoid parental disapproval.
In their introduction to a recent facsimile reproduction of Denzil...
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Texts
Hoagwood, Terence Allan. “Biblical Criticism and Secular Sex: Elizabeth Barrett’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">A Drama of Exile</span> and Jean Ingelow’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>A Story of Doom</span>”;. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
42
, No. 2, pp. 165-80.
Hoagwood, Terence Allan et al. “Introduction”. Denzil Place, Scholar’s Facsimiles and Reprints, 1996, pp. 3-11.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. “Introduction”. Sonnets and Songs (1880), edited by Cody Fife and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998, pp. 5-13.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Sonnets and Songs (1880). Editors Fife, Cody and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998.