http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/victorian-poetry Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 06 May 2026 05:57:17 -0400 Wed, 06 May 2026 05:57:17 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1008/apocalyptic-imagery-in-aurora-leigh By Kelley S. Kent - Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh (1856) is an apocalyptic work, as seen in Aurora and Romney’s vision of the New Jerusalem.  Barrett Browning was interested in the Apocalypse in all its literary transformations for most of her adult life, as seen in many of her letters and poems. The English Romantics, also concerned with internal apocalypses, influenced both Barrett Browning’s poetry and her religious opinions, as did treatment of the Apocalypse and Christ’s second coming in religious works of the period. Such intellectual interest in a cataclysmic end of... Mon, 09 Mar 2015 12:43 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1008/apocalyptic-imagery-in-aurora-leigh http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/850/goblin-market-renunciation-and-redemption-in-christina-rossettis-narrative-poem By Kelley S. Kent - The poem begins with the goblin men’s continual cry, “Come buy, come buy” (l. 4). What these goblins represent is clear by their seductive, sexually explicit, description of their fruity wares: “Plump unpecked cherries / . . . Bloom‑down‑cheeked peaches, / Swart‑headed mulberries, /Wild free‑born cranberries /. . . Pomegranates full and fine” (ll. 7, 9‑11, 21). The goblin men appear to sell fruit, but they really appeal to, and try to waken, women’s carnal lusts: “sweet to tongue and sound to eye” (l. 30). The goblins... Sat, 11 Jan 2014 05:04 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/850/goblin-market-renunciation-and-redemption-in-christina-rossettis-narrative-poem