Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1) Aurora Leigh
Author
Language
English
Description
'Aurora Leigh' is an eponymous epic novel/poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poem is written in blank verse and encompasses nine books. Through Book 5, Aurora narrates her past, from her childhood to the age of about 27; in Books 6-9, the narrative has caught up with her, and she reports events in diary form. Elizabeth Barrett Browning styled the poem "a novel in verse", and referred to it as "the most mature of my works, and the one into which...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delphi Classics
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with beautiful illustrations, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
Author
Publisher
Andrii Ponomarenko
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Her first collection of poems, An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems, was published in 1826 and reflected her passion for Byron and Greek politics. Its publication drew the attention of a blind scholar of the Greek language, Hugh Stuart Boyd, and of another Greek scholar, Uvedale Price, with whom she maintained sustained...
Author
Publisher
Andrii Ponomarenko
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This book includes classic poems by such eminent poets as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sara Teasdale, William Butler Yeats, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein and others.
Anne Bradstreet
Phillis Wheatley
William Cullen Bryant
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edgar Allan Poe
Abraham Lincoln
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
Herman Melville
Walt...
5) Seven Ages
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Language
English
Description
'One of the best anthologies of the year. An arresting, deeply moving collection of the best of British poetry read by a star-studded cast.' The Independent This exceptional anthology, based on Lord Owen's published anthology Seven Ages - Poetry for a Lifetime, features many of Britain's leading actors who have all given their services for charity. Shakespeare's 'seven ages' speech (read by Sir Ian McKellen) punctuates the programme which contains...