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Lyric Tipplers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Wine of Cyprus,” Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor,” and the Transatlantic Anacreontic Tradition

Lyric Tipplers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Wine of Cyprus,” Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a... MARJORIE STONE n August 1846, shortly before their marriage, Robert Browning told Elizabeth Barrett that one work in her 1844 Poems had "always affected" him "profoundly"--"perhaps . . . more profoundly" than any other by her, filling his "heart with unutterable desires."1 The poem that aroused such "unutterable desires"--"Wine of Cyprus"--is little read today. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, it was a universally praised minor poem in the collection that made "Elizabeth Barrett Barrett" England's most internationally recognized woman poet. Like EBB's other 1844 works, "Wine of Cyprus" was included in the successively expanded collections of Poems (1850, 1853, 1856) published under her married name, reproduced in pirated editions in America. These widely reviewed collections made "Mrs. Browning's poems . . . household words in Massachusetts to every school boy & (yet more) every school girl," Thomas Wentworth Higginson observed to her poet-husband in a letter of January 1854 (BC 20: 53). Although Emily Dickinson did not approach Higginson until 1862 to ask if her verse was "alive," his comment to Browning reflects the contexts in which "Mrs. Browning" became an empowering star on Dickinson's artistic horizon well before the publication of Aurora Leigh in November 1856. "For http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Victorian Poetry West Virginia University Press

Lyric Tipplers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Wine of Cyprus,” Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor,” and the Transatlantic Anacreontic Tradition

Victorian Poetry , Volume 54 (2) – Sep 8, 2016

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MARJORIE STONE n August 1846, shortly before their marriage, Robert Browning told Elizabeth Barrett that one work in her 1844 Poems had "always affected" him "profoundly"--"perhaps . . . more profoundly" than any other by her, filling his "heart with unutterable desires."1 The poem that aroused such "unutterable desires"--"Wine of Cyprus"--is little read today. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, it was a universally praised minor poem in the collection that made "Elizabeth Barrett Barrett" England's most internationally recognized woman poet. Like EBB's other 1844 works, "Wine of Cyprus" was included in the successively expanded collections of Poems (1850, 1853, 1856) published under her married name, reproduced in pirated editions in America. These widely reviewed collections made "Mrs. Browning's poems . . . household words in Massachusetts to every school boy & (yet more) every school girl," Thomas Wentworth Higginson observed to her poet-husband in a letter of January 1854 (BC 20: 53). Although Emily Dickinson did not approach Higginson until 1862 to ask if her verse was "alive," his comment to Browning reflects the contexts in which "Mrs. Browning" became an empowering star on Dickinson's artistic horizon well before the publication of Aurora Leigh in November 1856. "For

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