Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much Loved Poems From One Of The Greatest Romantic Poets
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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: 9781399614085
: Orion Publishing Group, Limited
: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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: 31 October 2023
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: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
: The\Great Poets Ser.
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'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" '