Both Robert Browning and Dylan Thomas sought absolute truth, which they found wanting in ordinary life. Browning believed ...

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 ...

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 ...

TWO-WAY MIRROR The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning By Fiona Sampson. Carol Ann Duffy became Britain’s first female poet laureate in 2009. More than a century and a half earlier Elizabeth ...

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No patriot Italian, of whatever high degree, gave greater sympathy to the aspirations of 1859 than Mrs. Browning, an echo of which the world has read in her “ Poems before Congress ” and still ...

Poetry is known for its brevity. And tell me, where are the poetic politicians like John F. Kennedy, who said, “When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations." ...

I n 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 ...