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<p>Elizabeth Barrett Browning believed that "Christ's religion is essentially poetry—poetry glorified." In <i>Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spiritual Progress,</i> Linda M. Lewis studies Browning's religion as poetry, her poetry as religion. The book interprets Browning's literary life as an arduous spiritual quest—the successive stages being a rejection of Promethean pride for Christ-like humility, affirmation of the gospels of suffering and of work, internalization of the doctrine of Apocalypse, and ascent to divine love and truth.</p> <p>Lewis follows this religious crusade from the poet's childhood to her posthumous <i>Last Poems</i>--including such topics as her Bible reading, her introduction to the Greek church fathers and the English Protestant reformers, the theological debates in which she participated, her quarrel with the theology of <i>Paradise Lost,</i> and her scandalous involvement in mesmerism and Swedenborgianism. Using insights from contemporary feminist thought, Lewis argues that Browning's religious assumptions and insights range from the conventional to the iconoclastic and that women's spirituality is, for Browning as well as for other Victorian women writers,

Author

Linda M. Lewis

Publisher

Columbia: University of Missouri Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826211460

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Religion