Today British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning is remembered mostly for her love poetry — her line, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,” written for her lover and eventual husband Robert ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on March 6, 1806, at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England. She published numerous collections of poetry, including "Poems" (Edward Moxon, 1844), "Casa Guidi Windows: A Poem ...

WELLESLEY, Mass. — "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett ..." So begins the first love letter to 19th century poet Elizabeth Barrett from her future husband, fellow poet Robert ...

"Cheerfulness Taught by Reason" was published in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's book "A Drama of Exile: And Other Poems" (H.G. Langley, 1845). Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806 at Coxhoe Hall, ...

Thus sang the Muse of a great woman years ago; and now, alas ! she, who, with constant suffering of her own, was called upon to grieve often for the loss of near and dear ones, has suddenly gone from ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, although a famous poet in her lifetime, has struggled to hold her rightful place in the literary canon. Poet Fiona Sampson’s new biography, Two-Way Mirror, the first of ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yawn. That cloying love poem, “How do I love thee?” That portrait where she looks at us sideways, her heavy curls shadowing her face. A Victorian invalid who was the victim ...

Virginia Woolf said: “Fate has not been kind to Mrs Browning as a writer. Nobody reads her, nobody discusses her, nobody troubles to put her in her place.” One might argue that Mrs Woolf wasn’t very ...

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