Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations, Primary Sources, and Website
Note on Citation Practices and EBB’s Punctuation
Illustrations
Preface: About this Edition
EBB: A Brief Chronology
Introduction

1. Early Works

• Unpublished Juvenilia
• On the Cruelty of Forcement to Man Alluding to the Press Gang
• Fragment of an “Essay on Woman”
• From An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems (1826)
• Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron

2. From The Seraphim, and Other Poems (1838)

• A Romance of the Ganges
  The Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus
  Felicia Hemans: To L.E.L.

3. From Poems (1844)

• From the Preface
  From A Drama of Exile
  Sonnets
• The Soul’s Expression
  On a Portrait of Wordsworth by B.R. Haydon
  Past and Future
  Grief
  To George Sand: A Desire
  To George Sand: A Recognition
• The Romaunt of the Page
  Lady Geraldine’s Courtship
  From A Vision of Poets
  The Cry of the Children
  Bertha in the Lane
  Catarina to Camoens
  The Romance of the Swan’s Nest

4. [Aeschylus’s Monodrama] (Unpublished, 1845)

5. From Poems (1850)

• Flush or Faunus
  Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave
  The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
  A Reed
  Sonnets from the Portuguese

6. From Casa Guidi Windows (1851)

• Advertisement to the First Edition
  Part I
  Part II

7. From Poems before Congress (1860)

• Preface
  The Dance
  A Curse for a Nation

8. From Last Poems (1862)

• Lord Walter’s Wife
  Bianca among the Nightingales
  A Musical Instrument
  Mother and Poet

Appendix A: Views, Reviews of Collected Poems, and Criticism

1. From William Michael Rossetti, Some Reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti (1906)
2. From Edgar Allan Poe, Broadway Journal (4 and 11 January 1845)
3. From Frederick Rowton, The Female Poets of Great Britain (1853)
4. From the English Woman’s Journal (7 August 1861)
5. From [William Stigand], Edinburgh Review (July-October 1861)
6. From [Gerald Massey], The North British Review (February-May 1862)
7. From Peter Bayne, Two Great Englishwomen: Mrs Browning and Charlotte Brontë (1881)
8. From Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats (1896)
9. From G.K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
10. From Virginia Woolf, The Second Common Reader (1931)

Appendix B: Religion and Factory Reform

I Religion

1. From The Guardian (22 January 1851)
2. From Samuel B. Holcombe, Southern Literary Messenger (December 1861)
3. From [Hannah Lawrance], The British Quarterly Review (October 1865)
4. From The True Mary (1868)
5. From Peter Bayne, Two Great Englishwomen: Mrs Browning and Charlotte Brontë (1881)

II Factory Reform

1. From Frances Trollope, The Life and Adventures of Armstrong (1844)
2. From On the Employment of Children and Young Persons (1841)

Appendix C: Trans-Atlantic Abolitionism and Responses to EBB’s Anti-Slavery Poems

I From The Liberty Bell

1. From George S. Burleigh, “The Worth of the Union” (1845)
2. Martha Hempstead, “The Fugitive” (1845)
3. Maria Lowell, “The Slave-mother” (1846)
4. From William Lloyd Garrison, “The American Union” (1845)

II The Original Opening of “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”

III Responses to “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” and
“Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave”

1. The Literary World on “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave” and “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1851)
2. Charlotte Forten on “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1854)

Appendix D: The Italian Question, Reviews of Casa Guidi Windows, and Reviews of Poems Before Congress

1. From [Giuseppe Mazzini], Westminster Review (April 1852)
2. From The Athenaeum (7 June 1851)
3. From The Leader (14 June 1851)
4. From The Spectator (28 June 1851)
5. From Eclectic Review (September 1851)
6. From [Henry Fothergill Chorley], The Athenaeum (17 March 1860)
7. From [Henry Fothergill Chorley], The Athenaeum (7 April 1860)
8. From The Atlas (24 March 1860)
9. From [William Edmondstoune Aytoun], Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (April 1860)
10. Inscription on the Brownings’ home, Casa Guidi (1861)

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