Verse novel · 1857

Aurora Leigh

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's verse novel in nine books of blank verse, telling in the first person the life of Aurora Leigh, a poet who must choose between art and love, and her relation to her cousin Romney, a social reformer.

Contents · 9 parts

• First Bookabout 1180 lines
• Second Bookabout 1320 lines
• Third Bookabout 1290 lines
• Fourth Bookabout 1270 lines
• Fifth Bookabout 1330 lines
• Sixth Bookabout 1330 lines
• Seventh Bookabout 1350 lines
• Eighth Bookabout 1320 lines
• Ninth Bookabout 990 lines

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