Dickinson's admiration of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's work is well documented. Elizabeth Barrett's poetry is considered by most scholars to be a significant inspiration for Dickinson who admired her not only as a great poet, but also as a woman of achievement.
Dickinson paid little attention to Browning while Barrett was alive, but after Barrett's passing from a long illness in 1861, Dickinson found a temporal sensibility in Browning's poetry. Petronella will discuss the extraordinary lives of Dickinson, Barrett and Browning, who are considered by many to be three of the world's greatest poets.
Petronella earned his doctorate in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently serves as emeritus professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is a seminar leader and board member for Beacon Hill Seminars in Boston, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, the poetry of the Brownings and John Keats, the fiction of Hawthorne and Melville, and the plays of George Bernard Shaw. He is a past president of the Boston Browning Society.
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