Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets
- Forfatter: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 128
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: The Great Poets
- EAN: 9781399614085
- Utgivelsesår: 2023
- Bidragsyter: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
''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 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 sent it over the western sea" ''