
Browning: Poems
Edited by Peter Washington
Peter Washington(Editor)
Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)
Published on 14. January 2003
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-4000-4022-3 (ISBN)
Description
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage. Still popular more than a century after their deaths, their poetry vividly reflects the unique nature of their relationship.
This collection presents the Brownings' work in the context of their lives: the early years and their initial friendship, their courtship and marriage, the fifteen happy years they spent living in Italy until Elizabeth's death. Whether in short poems such as Elizabeth's "Hector in the Garden” and Robert's "Natural Magic,” or in extracts from longer works such as Aurora Leigh and Pauline, the great themes they shared are all represented: love, marriage, illicit passion, England and Italy, childhood, religion, poetry, and nature. Elizabeth's famous Sonnets from the Portuguese, based on their love affair, is included in its entirety.
The poems are augmented with a generous selection of the marvelous letters the Brownings wrote to each other.
This collection presents the Brownings' work in the context of their lives: the early years and their initial friendship, their courtship and marriage, the fifteen happy years they spent living in Italy until Elizabeth's death. Whether in short poems such as Elizabeth's "Hector in the Garden” and Robert's "Natural Magic,” or in extracts from longer works such as Aurora Leigh and Pauline, the great themes they shared are all represented: love, marriage, illicit passion, England and Italy, childhood, religion, poetry, and nature. Elizabeth's famous Sonnets from the Portuguese, based on their love affair, is included in its entirety.
The poems are augmented with a generous selection of the marvelous letters the Brownings wrote to each other.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Colorado
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 113 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
222 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4000-4022-3 (9781400040223)
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Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Peter Washington
Browning: Poems
Edited by Peter Washington
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Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Edited by Peter Washington