Books with author Professor Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. Are you looking for one of the best books of all time to read? Then you've come to the right spot! Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is one of the best works of poetry of all time. Don’t miss out on this great classic - read Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning today!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era. In the 1830s Elizabeth’s cousin John Kenyon introduced her to prominent literary figures of the day such as William Wordsworth, Mary Russell Mitford, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Tennyson and Thomas Carlyle. Her 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, she 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 the child labour legislation. Her prolific output made her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate on the death of Wordsworth. Barrett Browning was widely popular in the U.K. and America during her lifetime. American poet Edgar Allan Poe was inspired by her poem Lady Geraldine’s Courtship and specifically borrowed the poem’s meter for his poem The Raven. Poe had reviewed Barrett Browning’s work in the January 1845 issue of the Broadway Journal and said that ”her poetic inspiration is the highest — we can conceive of nothing more august. Her sense of Art is pure in itself.” In return, she praised The Raven and Poe dedicated his 1845 collection The Raven and Other Poems to her, referring to her as ”the noblest of her sex”. Her poetry greatly influenced Emily Dickinson, who admired her as a woman of achievement. Her popularity in the United States and Britain was further advanced by her stands against social injustice, including slavery in the United States, injustice toward Italian citizens by foreign rulers, and child labour.

Wonderful silhouette illustrations on every other page, make this book! The bright gold decorative dustjacket adds much to this vintage 1937 hardcover. The jacket shows wear along the edges from shelving, heavy on the top front. Book is like new inside, free of markings, bright and clean. NEVER a library book, NOT priceclipped, NOt a worthless book of the month club

"Sonnets from the Portuguese" book has a beautiful glossy cover and a blank page for the dedication. I lift my heavy heart up solemnly, As once Electra her sepulchral urn, And, looking in thine eyes, I over-turn The ashes at thy feet. Behold and see What a great heap of grief lay hid in me, And how the red wild sparkles dimly burn Through the ashen greyness. If thy foot in scorn Could tread them out to darkness utterly, It might be well perhaps. But if instead Thou wait beside me for the wind to blow The grey dust up, . . . those laurels on thine head, O my Belovëd, will not shield thee so, That none of all the fires shall scorch and shred The hair beneath. Stand further off then! go!

Sonnets from the Portuguese - Love Sonnets - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular in the poet's lifetime and it remains so today.