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This article reconsiders on two counts the highly influential and eloquent interpretation of Barrett Browning's poetic engagement with the Risorgimento offered by Sandra Gilbert, who sees her personal and professional rejuvenation in direct correspondence with the Risorgimento. Firstly, her poetic response to Italian politics radically alters between her elopement to Italy in 1846 and her death in 1861, in contradistinction to Gilbert's static model. Secondly, Barrett Browning registers an extreme caution about her direct identification, as a woman poet, with Italy.

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