Author's goal is to investigate the tetishistic transformation of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry into metaphorical bodies by her nineteent-century critics. Historically men laid claim to reason by disavowing the body: within this logic women, linked to their bodies, cannot write the poets valued by Victorian literary society. However, Barret Browning did write the kind of poetry restricted to masculine imagination, and in doing this threatened to rival male contemporaries. In as much, she disavowed the ideologically marked female body.