Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT, an English poet, born in Durham, March 6, 1809. In September, 1846, she married Robert Browning. Her chief poems are &ldquo;The Seraphim&rdquo; (1838); &ldquo;Romaunt of the Page&rdquo; (1839); &ldquo;The Drama of Exile&rdquo; (1844); &ldquo;A Vision of Poets&rdquo; (1844); &ldquo;The Cry of the Children&rdquo; (1844); &ldquo;Casa Guidi Windows&rdquo; (1851); &ldquo;Aurora Leigh&rdquo; (1856). Her &ldquo;Sonnets from the Portuguese&rdquo; are among the noblest of love poems. The &ldquo;Romance of the Swan's Nest,&rdquo; the &ldquo;Rhyme of the Duchess May,&rdquo; the &ldquo;Romaunt of Margret,&rdquo; &ldquo;Bertha in the Lane,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Isabel's Child,&rdquo; are romantic and original ballads. &ldquo;Prometheus Bound,&rdquo; a metrical translation of Æschylus, was published in 1850. She died in Florence, June 30, 1861.



ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING