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Love Poems of Elizabeth And Robert Browning, The
Love Poems of Elizabeth And Robert Browning, The
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Elizabeth Barrett-browning, Robert Browning
The story of the Brownings is one of the strangest love stories of literature. Elizabeth Barrett was a thirty-nine year old invalid when Robert Browning, six years younger than she, stormed impetuously into her life. She was already a well known author; he was a rising but scarcely recognized poet.
She had praised some of his lines in a poem, "Lady Geraldine's Courtship," and his first letter to her began, "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett." Then, after a page or two of literary compliments, he added boyishly, "And I love you too." In spite of her father's disapproval, the young poet practically forced his way into the forbidding house, courted Elizabeth swiftly and tempestuously, and challenged the very authority of her father. On September 12, 1846, he persuaded Elizabeth to slip from the house and marry him secretly in Marylebone Church. A week later, the married poets crossed the channel, passed to Paris, to Pisa, and finally to Florence where they began a new life.
This collection of 92 poems written by Elizabeth Barrett Browing and Robert Browning over a period of many years, and selected by Louis Untermeyer, tells this rapturous love story.
ANF Poetry 001
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