Se trata de una reescritura de la historia bíblica de la expulsión de Adán y Eva del paraíso tras desobedecer el mandato divino, que Milton había ya versificado, aunque, en el poema de EBB, Eva surge como la redentora de la humanidad.
Después de Adán, el trabajo fue una maldición; pero todas las criaturas trabajan, sudan y sufren. Después de Jesús, el trabajo se convirtió en un privilegio; y desde entonces, convertido en uno de nosotros el Obrero de los Seis Dias, ...
Aurora Leigh
This story exposes the hypocrisy and repressive social attitudes of Victorian England.
Seven contemporary documents place the text historically. Criticism collects twenty-four assessments of Aurora Leigh from the period 1899-1993.
A novel in blank verse by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published in 1857.
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
A novel in blank verse by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published in 1857.
The story is told from the first-person narrative of the title character.
A novel in blank verse by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published in 1857.
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