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Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with beautiful illustrations, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Barrett Browning's life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Rare non-fiction works, including Barrett Browning’s reviews on Wordsworth and Horne
* Includes Barrett Browning's letters - spend hours exploring the poet's personal correspondence with her husband, friends and family
* Features two biographies - discover Barrett Browning's literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
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CONTENTS:
The Poetry Collections
THE BATTLE OF MARATHON
A ESSAY ON MIND, WITH OTHER POEMS
PROMETHEUS BOUND
POEMS, 1838-50
SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE
SONNETS
CASA GUIDI WINDOWS
AURORA LEIGH
POEMS BEFORE CONGRESS
LAST POEMS
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Non-Fiction
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE GREEK CHRISTIAN POETS
THE BOOK OF THE POETS
REVIEW OF ‘POEMS, CHIEFLY OF EARLY AND LATE YEARS, INCLUDING THE BORDERERS, A TRAGEDY BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’
REVIEWS OF CORNELIUS MATHEWS’ POETRY
REVIEW OF ‘ORION: AN EPIC POEM by R. H. Horne’
The Letters
THE LETTERS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
The Biographies
THE BROWNINGS: THEIR LIFE AND ART by Lilian Whiting
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING by G. K. Chesterton
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* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Barrett Browning's life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Rare non-fiction works, including Barrett Browning’s reviews on Wordsworth and Horne
* Includes Barrett Browning's letters - spend hours exploring the poet's personal correspondence with her husband, friends and family
* Features two biographies - discover Barrett Browning's literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
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CONTENTS:
The Poetry Collections
THE BATTLE OF MARATHON
A ESSAY ON MIND, WITH OTHER POEMS
PROMETHEUS BOUND
POEMS, 1838-50
SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE
SONNETS
CASA GUIDI WINDOWS
AURORA LEIGH
POEMS BEFORE CONGRESS
LAST POEMS
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Non-Fiction
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE GREEK CHRISTIAN POETS
THE BOOK OF THE POETS
REVIEW OF ‘POEMS, CHIEFLY OF EARLY AND LATE YEARS, INCLUDING THE BORDERERS, A TRAGEDY BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’
REVIEWS OF CORNELIUS MATHEWS’ POETRY
REVIEW OF ‘ORION: AN EPIC POEM by R. H. Horne’
The Letters
THE LETTERS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
The Biographies
THE BROWNINGS: THEIR LIFE AND ART by Lilian Whiting
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING by G. K. Chesterton
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First published August 12, 2015
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About the author
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
995 books702 followersElizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era.
Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Browning was educated at home. She wrote poetry from around the age of six and this was compiled by her mother, comprising what is now one of the largest collections extant of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15 Browning became ill, suffering from intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life, rendering her frail. She took laudanum for the pain, which may have led to a lifelong addiction and contributed to her weak health.
In the 1830s Barrett's cousin John Kenyon introduced her to prominent literary figures of the day such as William Wordsworth, Mary Russell Mitford, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Thomas Carlyle. Browning's first adult collection The Seraphim and Other Poems was published in 1838. During this time she contracted a disease, possibly tuberculosis, which weakened her further. Living at Wimpole Street, in London, Browning wrote prolifically between 1841 and 1844, producing poetry, translation and prose. She campaigned for the abolition of slavery and her work helped influence reform in child labour legislation. Her prolific output made her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate on the death of Wordsworth.
Browning's volume Poems (1844) brought her great success. During this time she met and corresponded with the writer Robert Browning, who admired her work. The courtship and marriage between the two were carried out in secret, for fear of her father's disapproval. Following the wedding she was disinherited by her father and rejected by her brothers. The couple moved to Italy in 1846, where she would live for the rest of her life. They had one son, Robert Barrett Browning, whom they called Pen. Towards the end of her life, her lung function worsened, and she died in Florence in 1861. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband shortly after her death.
Browning was brought up in a strongly religious household, and much of her work carries a Christian theme. Her work had a major influence on prominent writers of the day, including the American poets Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson. She is remembered for such poems as "How Do I Love Thee?" (Sonnet 43, 1845) and Aurora Leigh (1856).
Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Browning was educated at home. She wrote poetry from around the age of six and this was compiled by her mother, comprising what is now one of the largest collections extant of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15 Browning became ill, suffering from intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life, rendering her frail. She took laudanum for the pain, which may have led to a lifelong addiction and contributed to her weak health.
In the 1830s Barrett's cousin John Kenyon introduced her to prominent literary figures of the day such as William Wordsworth, Mary Russell Mitford, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Thomas Carlyle. Browning's first adult collection The Seraphim and Other Poems was published in 1838. During this time she contracted a disease, possibly tuberculosis, which weakened her further. Living at Wimpole Street, in London, Browning wrote prolifically between 1841 and 1844, producing poetry, translation and prose. She campaigned for the abolition of slavery and her work helped influence reform in child labour legislation. Her prolific output made her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate on the death of Wordsworth.
Browning's volume Poems (1844) brought her great success. During this time she met and corresponded with the writer Robert Browning, who admired her work. The courtship and marriage between the two were carried out in secret, for fear of her father's disapproval. Following the wedding she was disinherited by her father and rejected by her brothers. The couple moved to Italy in 1846, where she would live for the rest of her life. They had one son, Robert Barrett Browning, whom they called Pen. Towards the end of her life, her lung function worsened, and she died in Florence in 1861. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband shortly after her death.
Browning was brought up in a strongly religious household, and much of her work carries a Christian theme. Her work had a major influence on prominent writers of the day, including the American poets Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson. She is remembered for such poems as "How Do I Love Thee?" (Sonnet 43, 1845) and Aurora Leigh (1856).
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May 1, 2023
We read we traveled, my heart and I,
Through these poems these words we gave them a try,
And happily we sunk to depths explored
As if the depths were without a floor.
We sunk we sunk but then we soared
No longer despairing no longer moored;
So grateful for the journey, my heart and I.
Through these poems these words we gave them a try,
And happily we sunk to depths explored
As if the depths were without a floor.
We sunk we sunk but then we soared
No longer despairing no longer moored;
So grateful for the journey, my heart and I.
Displaying 1 of 1 review