"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning captures the remarkable love story of the renowned poets behind these famous words, from their dramatic elopement in 1846 to Elizabeth's tragic death in 1861. Their romance began with a letter from Robert admiring Elizabeth's highly acclaimed book, Poems. When her father disapproved, they married in secret and boldly moved to Florence, Italy. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning describes how their love and lives flourished there, producing one son, writing some of their most renowned works, and maintaining friendships with some of the most prominent literati of their time, including John Ruskin, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
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Grade 9&Up--This book presents biographical information first for Elizabeth Barrett Browning and then for her husband, Robert Browning. It describes their early lives, education, literary beginnings, correspondence, meeting, and subsequent marriage. After their marriage, the couple traveled first to Paris, then to Italy where they lived on and off for many years. The rest of the book is devoted to their publications. The text is filled with long, helpful summaries and critique. In addition, the poems are discussed against the backdrop of the Brownings' lives, which will make it easier for students to understand and analyze their work. Excerpts from letters are included. This handsome book contains quality reproductions of artwork, first drafts, and black-and-white photographs. A valuable resource for literature collections as well as for fans of these poets.
Pat Bender, The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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"Poetry lovers and teachers of poetry will enjoy this edition of the lives and loves of two of the world's best-known poets.... The research used on these poets is authoritative and well documented. This book, unlike some, is not dry and dull but rather makes the people come off the pages. Students who read this book or simply read sections of it will learn more about this period and the people mentioned in the passages."--Christian Library Journal
"This handsome book contains quality reproductins of artwork, first drafts, and black-and-white photographs. A valuable resource for literature collections as well as for fans of these poets."--School Library Journal
"Students and staff...will find much to hold their interest in the pages of this book....A valuable resource for serious students."--Book Report
"This handsome book contains quality reproductins of artwork, first drafts, and black-and-white photographs. A valuable resource for literature collections as well as for fans of these poets."--School Library Journal
"Students and staff...will find much to hold their interest in the pages of this book....A valuable resource for serious students."--Book Report
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The Barrett family amassed its wealth, in the late eighteenth century, with the aid of slave-workers on sugar plantations in the British colony of Jamaica. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, Casa Guidi, Aurora Leigh, Edward Barrett, Wimpole Street, Hope End, John Kenyon, The British Library, Alexandra Orr, Dramatic Lyrics, College Library, George Sand, Mary Russell Mitford, The Athenaeum, Anna Jameson, Elizabeth Wilson, Grand Canal, Isa Blagden, Mary Mitford, Miss Barrett, The Britisb Library New!
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- Aurora Leigh (Oxford World's Classics) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on 11 pages
- Men and Women and Other Poems (Everyman Paperback Classics) by Robert Browning on 8 pages
- The Ring And The Book by Robert Browning on 7 pages
- The Ring and the Book (Broadview literary texts) by Robert Browning on 7 pages
- Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on 5 pages
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- Robert Browning: A Life After Death by Pamela Neville-Sington in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer (Classical Presences) by Isobel Hurst on page 31, and Back Matter
- Robert Browning (Routledge Guides to Literature) by Stefan Hawlin in Back Matter
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