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One of her 19th century sonnets says, "Behold and see what a great heap of grief lay hid in me" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$400 |
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RECITING POETRY |
2024-06-13 |
#9124 |
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"Aurora Leigh", whoa! / 19th century lady / Let me count the ways |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$800 |
J |
HAIKU ABOUT THE POET |
2023-11-06 |
#8966 |
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"Poems" by her came out in 1844; months later, a poet named Robert wrote to say, "I love your verses with all my heart" (& yeah, you too) |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$1,200 |
DJ |
PURE POETRY |
2023-02-27 |
#8816 |
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Her 1844 poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" mentions Robert Browning, who soon began his own courtship |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$200 |
J |
BRITISH POETRY |
2021-06-23 |
#8428 |
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"I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$1,000 |
J |
NAME THAT POET! |
2018-03-06 |
#7712 |
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In September 1846 this English poet secretly married her poet boyfriend |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$1,200 |
DJ |
WOMEN POETS |
2017-01-10 |
#7442 |
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Lines meant for her husband Robert say, "If thou must love me, let it be for nought except for love's sake only" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$400 |
DJ |
BRITISH POETS |
2016-09-12 |
#7356 |
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In Robert Browning's "Two in the Campagna", she's the other one |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$400 |
DJ |
WOMEN IN POETRY |
2016-02-16 |
#7237 |
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"Aurora Leigh", whoa! /19th century lady /Let me count the ways |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$800 |
J |
HAIKU ABOUT THE POET |
2015-09-25 |
#7135 |
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"My Little Portuguese" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
DD
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$3,000 |
DJ |
POETS' MONIKERS |
2015-04-06 |
#7041 |
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She titled an 1851 collection of her poems "Casa Guidi Windows" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$800 |
DJ |
POETS & POETRY |
2015-01-29 |
#6994 |
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She spent the last 14 years of her life with her husband at Casa Guidi in Italy |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
DD
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$2,000 |
DJ |
POETIC WOMEN |
2014-06-10 |
#6857 |
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Translator Edward Fitzgerald wrote that her 1861 "death is rather a relief to me... no more Aurora Leighs, thank God" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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FJ |
ENGLISH POETS |
2010-05-31 |
#5931 |
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How do we love her?:EBB |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$400 |
DJ |
POETS' MONOGRAMS |
2009-04-08 |
#5668 |
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A poem of hers says, "I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life!" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$800 |
J |
POETS & POETRY |
2008-09-17 |
#5523 |
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This poet wrote, "I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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FJ |
POETS |
2008-04-22 |
#5447 |
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He wrote "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" to amuse a sick child |
Browning
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$800 |
J |
POETS & POETRY |
2007-01-23 |
#5152 |
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She asked, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$200 |
J |
THE POETRY OF LOVE |
2006-10-27 |
#5090 |
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She described her 1840s poem "A Vision of Poets" as "philosophical, allegorical, anything but popular" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$1,600 |
DJ |
BRITISH POETS & POETRY |
2006-06-28 |
#5033 |
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In 1850 the Athenaeum suggested that she succeed Wordsworth as England's poet laureate |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
DD
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$5,201 |
DJ |
WOMEN POETS |
2006-01-10 |
#4912 |
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His first published poem was 1833's "Pauline" |
Browning
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$800 |
DJ |
BOBBING FOR POETS |
2005-05-11 |
#4773 |
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While living in Italy, she wrote & sent to the U.S. "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim Point", published in 1848 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$800 |
DJ |
POETS & POETRY |
2003-11-13 |
#4414 |
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She wrote in a sonnet, "First time he kissed me, he but only kiss'd the fingers of this hand where with I write" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
DD
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$3,000 |
DJ |
POETS & POETRY |
2003-04-15 |
#4297 |
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One week after a secret wedding at St. Marylebone Church, she ran off to Italy, escaping Wimpole Street forever |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
DD
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$1,800 |
DJ |
POETIC LICENSE |
2002-05-06 |
#4081 |
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From 1847 to 1861, he & his wife Elizabeth lived at Casa Guidi in Florence |
Browning
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$400 |
DJ |
BRITISH POETS |
2002-01-28 |
#4011 |
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This British poet spent the last 15 years of her life, 1847-1861, at Casa Guidi, her villa in Florence, Italy |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$800 |
DJ |
FEMALE POETS |
2000-06-20 |
#3652 |
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We hope she meantthe followingfor husband Robert:"I love thee to the level of every day's /Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$200 |
DJ |
LOVE POETRY WITH JOHNNY GILBERT |
2000-02-14 |
#3561 |
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"O my palm-treeā¦rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare", she wrote in "Sonnets from the Portuguese" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$600 |
DJ |
POET-TREE |
1998-11-20 |
#3270 |
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"Unlike are we, unlike, o princely heart!" begins one of her "Sonnets From The Portuguese" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$400 |
DJ |
POETS & POETRY |
1997-05-13 |
#2937 |
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Her nickname "The Portuguese" derives from her poem about a Portuguese woman, "Catarina to Camoens" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$600 |
DJ |
POETS |
1996-06-07 |
#2725 |
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The next to last of her "Sonnets from the Portuguese" begins, "How do I love thee?" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$200 |
DJ |
POETRY |
1995-11-27 |
#2586 |
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She wrote "The Rhyme of the Duchess May" & her husband wrote "My Last Duchess" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$500 |
J |
POETS & POETRY |
1995-11-17 |
#2580 |
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In 1838 this poet & her family moved to 50 Wimpole Street |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
DD
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$2,000 |
DJ |
POETS |
1995-05-10 |
#2473 |
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7 days after her marriage to Robert Browning, she left Wimpole Street never to return |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$200 |
DJ |
POETS |
1995-02-10 |
#2410 |
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During her last decade this British poet lived in the Casa Guidi in Florence, Italy |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
DD
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$700 |
DJ |
WOMEN POETS |
1994-12-01 |
#2359 |
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She dedicated "Aurora Leigh" to her cousin John Kenyon, not to her husband Robert |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$600 |
DJ |
POETS |
1994-10-25 |
#2332 |
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Her "Last Poems" were compiled by her husband Robert & published the year after her death |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$100 |
J |
POETS |
1993-03-24 |
#1978 |
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Her poem inspired "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" inspired Robert to write to her; they eventually married |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$200 |
DJ |
POETS |
1992-10-14 |
#1863 |
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She was "The Portuguese" in "Sonnets from the Portuguese" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$200 |
DJ |
POETS |
1991-11-29 |
#1670 |
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After marrying a poet, this poetess wrote, "Papa thinks that I have sold my soul - for genius" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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$1,000 |
DJ |
POETS |
1991-02-13 |
#1493 |