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Letters locked away for more than 40 years have revealed how Victorian poet Robert Browning built up a close relationship with the niece of naturalist Charles Darwin, auction house Christie's said ...
“Two-Way Mirror,” by Fiona Sampson, is the first biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in many years. It aims to restore the now overlooked poet’s reputation as a major innovator.
Both Robert Browning and Dylan Thomas sought absolute truth, which they found wanting in ordinary life. Browning believed ...
How, and why, do readers love Elizabeth Barrett Browning? A popular poet with an international following, a progressive thinker about women’s roles, children’s rights and slavery; a formal ...
There are some lines in these poems that exhibit his familiar earnestness and force, and a Roundhead lyric that will cling to the memory ; there is, in particular, a page about Prometheus which is ...
Style From Instapoets to the bards of YouTube, poetry is going viral. And some poets hate that. May 6, 2018 More than 7 years ago Summary By Lavanya Ramanathan ...
To quote Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poetry is a “gift to mortals.” As told by bards, poetry was original history and we need 21 st -century bards to document this journey and keep hope and ...
They combined the eonfid in guess of a child with the poet-passion of heart and of intellect; and in gazing into them it was easy to read why Mrs. Browning wrote.
In 1850 Browning published a pair of poems on the two great festival days of the church year which memorialize two cardinal doctrines of the Christian faith—the Incarnation and the Resurrection ...