Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation."

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Source: Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Philip Kelley, Ronald Hudson (1987). “The Brownings' correspondence”

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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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