Striving for Attention: Furthering a Comparative Reading of Robert Browning and Edgar Allan Poe

This article explores the possible influence between certain works by Robert Browning and Edgar Allan Poe, composed published very close in time, which deal with similar themes share literary strategies techniques. Although possibility that they might have been reading each other’s work is supported their respective correspondences Elizabeth Barrett Browning, similarities could also be attributed to experimentation as a means of standing out fiercely competitive market had pander both popular critical taste. compares choice tone sensational event, well use voice short list titles coincide time publication topic, raise issue controversial historical context when plagiarism radical innovation were equally problematic.