Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Englis

Description: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description The volume illustrates Browning's development as a poet and reveals her contribution to feminist literature. The poems selected here include early verses published in 1826, when the poet was twenty, as well as the last poems she wrote before her death in 1861. Publisher Description Most of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings poetry has been unavailable to new readers, in spite of a growing appreciation of her innovativeness as a poet?and it spite of her onvious importance for any feminist reading of nineteenth-century English poetry. With the publication of this book, a major portion of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings wok returns to print. The poems selected here includ early verse published in 1826, when the poet was twenty, as well as the last poems she wrote before her death in 1861. Her religious verse appears alongside lively ballads, examples of her social-reforming and political verse, and generous selections of her love poetry, including the whole of the Sonnets from the Portuguese . The volume illustrates Elizabeth Barrett Brownings development as a poet and reveals her contribution to feminist literature. Innocent-seeming ballads, beloved in the Victorian period for their sweetness and condemned thereafter for their cloying sentimentality, here emerge as subversive articulations of the plight of women. "Few heard what Elizabeth Barrett Browning said [in her time]," Margaret Forster writes. "Today, with ears more finely attuned, we can hear her clearly." Author Biography Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806. A semi-invalid for most of her early live, she won a great reputation with the appearance of her "Poems "(1844). The book attracted the admiration of Robert Browning, who secretly courted her for two years before the couples celebrated elopement to Italy in 1846. In Italy, Elizabeths health improved; she threw herself into European politics and wrote what is perhaps her best-known work, "Sonnets from the Portuguese "(1850). She died in 1861, and her "Last Poems "appeared in that same year. Details ISBN 0801837545 ISBN-13 9780801837548 Title Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems Author Elizabeth Barrett Browning Format Paperback Year 1988 Pages 352 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press GE_Item_ID:136586823; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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