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Without poetry, Browning insists, there can only be failed social engineering: Poetry reminds one of God. Conversely, since feminism is part of the new order, so is the poetry that Aurora defends in her intellectual arguments with Romney. Thus, the political argument of Aurora Leigh could be summarized this way: There can be no genuine progress without the inclusion of feminist concerns, which are important not only for women but for everyone. Those concerns include poetry; if women are now going to be writing the important poetry of the day—important not least because of its political ambition—then there will be no genuine progress without feminist poetry that makes this very point.
The colonel’s son shows defiant scorn toward Kamal, who replies with a sublime confirmation of all that Mohammed Kahn has said about the danger he might have been to the colonel’s son. But the colonel’s son is equally sublime in his lighthearted courage, and he impresses Kamal as much as Kamal impresses him. ” The Scottish clans that harried the English on the Anglo-Scottish border until the 18th century parallel the Afghan tribal clans to which Kamal and his followers belong. If Kamal is impressed by the courage of the colonel’s son, the latter is just as impressed by Kamal’s.
European Romantic Review 14, no. 1 (January 2003): 31–48. McMillan, Dorothy, ed. ) Wordsworth, Jonathan. Ancestral Voices: Fifty Books from the Romantic Period. New York: Woodstock, 1996. “Ballade of Blue China” Andrew Lang (1880) The troubadour form of the ballade, resuscitated by Algernon Charles Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti turned out to be especially good for comic or light verse in English. ”) This is because the repetitions of rhyme and refrain in the ballade require ambiguity or at least substantial and surprising range of meaning to prevent them from being obvious and without function.