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.
qtd. in
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. “Introduction”. Sonnets and Songs (1880), edited by Cody Fife and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998, 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 Barretts A Drama of Exile and Jean Ingelows A Story of DoomVictorian Poetry, Vol.
42
, No. 2, 2004, 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.