Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

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A member of the Barrett family and wife of poet Robert Browning, she was a popular and respected poet of the Victorian era.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Works

Poems

1820

• The Battle of Marathon

1824

• Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron

1825

• The Rose and Zephyr

1838

• The Deserted Garden

1843

• The Cry of the Children

1844

• Consolation
• The Lady's Yes
• To George Sand

1850

• Sonnets from the Portuguese

  XXXIII. "Yes, call me by my pet-name!"

  XLIII. "How Do I Love Thee?"

1851

• "A Child's Grave at Florence"
• "A Child's Thought of God"
• Casa Guidi Windows (transcription project)
• "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point"

1855

• The Best Thing in the World

1856

• Aurora Leigh (transcription project)

1860

• A Musical Instrument

1882

• 'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep' [1]

Compilations

• An Essay on Mind and Other Poems (1826)
• Prometheus Bound, translated from the Greek of Aeschylus, and miscellaneous poems (1833) (external scan)
• The Seraphim, and Other Poems (1838) [2]
• Poems (UK)/ A Drama of Exile, and other Poems (US) (1844)
• Poems("New Edition," 2 vols.)Revision of 1844 edition adding Sonnets from the Portuguese and others (1850)
• Prometheus Bound, and other poems, including Sonnets from the Portuguese (1851) (transcription project)
• Poems(3d ed.) (1853)
• Two Poems:"A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London" by Barrett Browning and "The Twins" by Browning (1854)
• Poems(4th ed.) (1856)
• Poems Before Congress (1860)
• Last Poems (1862)
• The Complete Works of Mrs. E. B. Browning, edited by Charlotte Porter & Helen A Clarke (1901)

  Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4

Translations

• Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

  First edition (1833)

  Retranslated (1850)

• "A Lament for Adonis", translation of Bion
• "Song of the Rose", translation of Sappho

Correspondence

• The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II [3]

Works about Browning

• "To Elizabeth Barrett Browning" in Poems (1848) by Anne Lynch Botta
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 5th ed., by John Henry Ingram, 1883.
• "Browning, Elizabeth Barrett," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Browning, Elizabeth Barrett," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Browning, Elizabeth Barrett," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Browning, Elizabeth Barrett," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)