Browning Elizabeth Barrett - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Much - Loved Poems From One Of The Greatest Romantic Poets - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest of twelve children she wrote poetry from the age of eleven and became a highly successful poet in her lifetime - and remains very much loved today. She was also a strong advocate for human rights campaigning to abolish slavery and child labour and her three - part poem A Curse for a Nation is a powerful polemic against the slave trade. I heard an angel speak last night and he said "write! Write a nation's curse for me and send it over the western sea" '
Title: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Much - Loved Poems From One Of The Greatest Romantic Poets
Author(s): Browning Elizabeth Barrett
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Barcode: 9781399614085
Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Series: The Great Poets
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets