tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700894621471344950.post5883222107510094365..comments2024-01-11T22:43:16.003+00:00Comments on Pre Raphaelite Influenced Art: Arthur Hughes - Aurora Leigh's Dismissal of Romney ('The Tryst') 1860Hermeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00968366076064269729noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700894621471344950.post-29505538035847044242012-10-16T09:41:22.883+01:002012-10-16T09:41:22.883+01:00Dear Terry,
My friend Julia Bolton Holloway, who e...Dear Terry,<br />My friend Julia Bolton Holloway, who edited Aurora Leigh for the Penguin Edition, asked me to post the following comment:<br /><br />It's not a volume of her poetry but instead it's a volume of Greek verse she was reading when Romney comes upon her - which Romney tells her is unsuited for a woman - 'lady's Greek - without the accents' - when EBB had already published with a fine Greek scholar, Sir Uvedale Price, on precisely the tonality of Greek with the accents! EBB is recalling here, however, Robert's scorn at women writing love sonnets, why she hid the Sonnets from the Portuguese from him until after the birth of their child.<br />Best,<br />Dr Julia Bolton HollowayNichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07571313003315450988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700894621471344950.post-57906490752476524242012-10-16T09:25:01.009+01:002012-10-16T09:25:01.009+01:00Dear Terry,
My friend Julia Bolton Holloway, who e...Dear Terry,<br />My friend Julia Bolton Holloway, who edited Aurora Leigh for the Penguin Edition, asked me to post the following comment:<br /><br />It's not a volume of her poetry but instead it's a volume of Greek verse she was reading when Romney comes upon her - which Romney tells her is unsuited for a woman - 'lady's Greek - without the accents' - when EBB had already published with a fine Greek scholar, Sir Uvedale Price, on precisely the tonality of Greek with the accents! EBB is recalling here, however, Robert's scorn at women writing love sonnets, why she hid the Sonnets from the Portuguese from him until after the birth of their child.<br />Best,<br />Dr Julia Bolton Holloway<br />Nichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07571313003315450988noreply@blogger.com