Elizabeth barrett browning biography and poems

English poet (–)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March – 29 June ) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the s and s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.

In the s, Elizabeth was introduced to literary society through her distant cousin and patron John

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Synopsis

Born in , Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning published her first major collection, The Seraphim and Other Poems, in Her collection Poems () caught the attention of fellow poet Robert Browning, whose admiring letter to her led to a lifelong romance and marriage. The couple moved to Italy, where Elizabeth became interested in Italian politics and released her monumental work, Sonnets From the Portuguese in

Early Life

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on March 6, , at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England. She was the oldest of 12 children, and her family made their fortune from Jamaican sugar plantations. Educated at home, Barrett was a precocious reader and writer. Having delved into classics such as the works of John Milton and William Shakespeare before her teen years, she also wrote her first book of poetry by age Deeply religious, Barrett’s writing often explored Christian themes, a trait that would remain throughout her life

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Born on March 6, , at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Romantic Movement. The oldest of twelve children, Elizabeth was the first in her family born in England in over two hundred years. For centuries, the Barrett family, who were part Creole, had lived in Jamaica, where they owned sugar plantations and relied on the forced labor of enslaved individuals. Elizabeth’s father, Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett, chose to raise his family in England, while his fortune grew in Jamaica. Educated at home, Elizabeth apparently had read passages from John Milton’s Paradise Lost and a number of Shakespearean plays, among other great works, before the age of ten. By her twelfth year, she had written her first “epic” poem, which consisted of four books of rhyming couplets. Two years later, Elizabeth developed a lung ailment that plagued her for the rest of her life. Doctors began treating her with morphine,