‘A FONDNESS FOR BEING SAD’: SOME PORTUGUESE SOURCES FOR ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING’S POETICS OF MELANCHOLY IN SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE (1850)
In seeing melancholy as the antithesis of poetic creativity, the Victorians often broke with the traditional Renaissance and Romantic attitudes of equating melancholy moods with artistic or poetic genius. This article proposes to explore how, initially viewed as an emotional and ‘depressed’ woman po...
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Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Diacrítica |
| Online Access: | http://diacritica.ilch.uminho.pt/index.php/dia/article/view/230 |