Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Description
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Source: [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]( on Wikipedia.
Books
Sonnets from the Portuguese, and other love poems
Sonnets from the Portuguese, first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her marriage to Robert Browning.
Selected poems
The letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836-1854
A variorum edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese
The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970
For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Aurora Leigh, and other poems
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the poems. What Edgar Allan Poe called 'her wild and magnificent genius' is abundantly in evidence. In addition to Aurora Leigh, this volume contains poetry from the several volumes of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's published poetry from 1826 to 1862, including Casa Guidi Windows (1851), Songs for the Ragged Schools of London (1854) and the British Library manuscript text of the 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' (1846) which records her courtship with Robert Browning.
