Tuesday, September 08, 2009

News at Eleven: "It's in a poem

that's very much about a significant time in the world and in her life," [Sandra] Donaldson said. "She's working out this idea of connection with another person. She's a woman thinking about love and death and how you deal with making decisions that are difficult, how you understand the implications of actions."

A common perception of Browning (by people not so familiar with her work) is that she "lolled on a couch," dreamily writing of dreamy love, Donaldson said. But in her research, the UND professor discovered "how strong a political poet she was," writing throughout her life against slavery, for example.

from Grand Forks Herald: Professor unearths previously unknown Browning manuscript

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