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'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest of twelve children, she wrote poetry from the age of eleven, and became a highly successful poet in her lifetime - and remains very much loved today.

She was also a strong advocate for human rights, campaigning to abolish slavery and child labour, and her three-part poem A Curse for a Nation is a powerful polemic against the slave trade.

'I heard an angel speak last night, and he said "write! Write a nation's curse for me, and send it over the western sea" '

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets

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'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience.... Read more

    Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
    Publication Date: 28/09/2023
    ISBN13: 9781399614085, 978-1399614085
    ISBN10: 1399614088

    Number of Pages: 128

    Fiction , Poetry

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    'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest of twelve children, she wrote poetry from the age of eleven, and became a highly successful poet in her lifetime - and remains very much loved today.

    She was also a strong advocate for human rights, campaigning to abolish slavery and child labour, and her three-part poem A Curse for a Nation is a powerful polemic against the slave trade.

    'I heard an angel speak last night, and he said "write! Write a nation's curse for me, and send it over the western sea" '

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