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Browning, Elizabeth (Moulton) Barrett (1806–1861)

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English poet. In 1844 she published Poems (including ‘The Cry of the Children’), which led to her friendship with and secret marriage to Robert Browning in 1846. She wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), a collection of love lyrics, during their courtship. She wrote strong verse about social injustice and oppression in Victorian England, and she was a learned, fiery, and metrically experimental poet. Elizabeth Barrett was born near Durham. Her early years were spent in Herefordshire, but later, after a financial setback, the family lived in London. She suffered illness as a child, led a sheltered and restricted life, and was from the age of 13 regarded by her father as an invalid. In this cramped atmosphere her chief interests were literary. A brief stay in Torquay, Devon, with her brother Edward ended with his death by drowning in 1840. With the appearance of Poems (1844), her reputation was established. She was freed from her father's oppressive influence by her marriage to…
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Full text Article Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

From Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
In her day, Barrett was considered the foremost woman poet. Her work largely faded out of fashion, with the exception of her love sonnets, until 1996, when Margaret Reynolds’s critical edition of Aurora Leigh (1857) attracted the attention of feminist scholars. As a result of their scrutiny, Barrett…
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Full text Article BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT 1806-1861

From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
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When William Wordsworth died in 1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning had achieved sufficient fame and renown so that she was thought a deserving successor to him as Britain's poet laureate. Browning had been publishing for nearly a quarter of a century by then, and in that time she had clearly…
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Full text Article Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
English poet. Born in Durham, the oldest of 11 children, she spent her childhood at Hope End, Herefordshire. A precocious child, reading Greek at 8, her Battle of Marathon was privately printed when she was 12. When she was 20 her mother died, and her father’s financial difficulties made him move…
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Full text Article Browning, Elizabeth (Moulton) Barrett (1806–1861)

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English poet. In 1844 she published Poems (including ‘The Cry of the Children’), which led to her friendship with and secret marriage to Robert Browning in 1846. She wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), a collection of love lyrics, during their courtship. She wrote strong verse about social…
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Full text Article THE DEVIL

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
My dear brothers, never forget when you hear the progress of the Enlightenment praised, that the Devil’s cleverest ploy is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist. [Attr.] Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. THE BIBLE ; James, 4:7. The devil’s most devilish when respectable. BROWNING, …
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Full text Article SUFFERING

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. AUSTEN, Jane Persuasion (1818). It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. BACON, Francis ‘ Of Empire ’ (1625). …
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Portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Durham, 1806-Florence, 1861), English poet, Painting by Michele Gordigiani (1830-1909), 1858, oil on canvas, 73,7 x58,4 cm
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Full text Article BIRDS

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[Suggestion for the name of the Birds’ capital city] What do you think of ‘Cloudcuckooland’? ARISTOPHANES Birds , 819. There is a tale that is told in London about a nightingale, how it did this and that and, finally for no apparent reason, rested and sang in Berkeley Square. ARLEN, Michael These…
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Full text Article GOD

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Even God is deprived of this one thing only: the power to undo what has been done. In Aristotle , Nicomachean Ethics . Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. ALLEN, Woody Getting Even (1971). The worst that can be said is that he’s an under-achiever. …
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