Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things."

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Source: Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.54, The Floating Press

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poet, Novelist

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prominent Victorian poet known for her passionate love poetry, especially in 'Sonnets from the Portuguese.'

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