Aurora Leigh

'Aurora Leigh' is an eponymous epic novel/poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poem is written in blank verse and encompasses nine books. Through Book 5, Aurora narrates her past, from her childhood to the age of about 27; in Books 6-9, the narrative has caught up with her, and she reports events in diary form. Elizabeth Barrett Browning styled the poem &quote;a novel in verse&quote;, and referred to it as &quote;the most mature of my works, and the one into which my highest convictions upon Life and Art have entered.&quote;