By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) is less famous now as a poet in her own right, and more familiar as the wife of Robert Browning, whom she courted through a series of extraordinary love letters in the 1840s. It was not always this way. Once […]
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A Short Analysis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers’
‘Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers’, one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese, is a fine love poem about her courtship and eventual marriage to her fellow poet, Robert Browning. Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers Plucked in the garden, all the summer through And winter, […]
A Short Analysis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘To Flush, My Dog’
On Barrett Browning’s wonderful dog poem ‘A dog is a man’s best friend’, they say. But one hopes that in this case, as the old jest has it, ‘man embraces woman’, and that what the anonymous author of this proverb had in mind was the close bond between dogs and […]
A Short Analysis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways’
By Dr Oliver Tearle ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.’ One of the most famous opening lines in all of English love poetry. Yet how much do we really know about this poem? Who can quote the second line, for instance? The poet who wrote this […]
A Very Short Biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A brief introduction to Barrett Browning’s life Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was one of the most popular poets of the Victorian era, and although her achievement is now eclipsed by that of the man she married in 1846, she was the more popular poet of the two of them during […]