Elizabeth Barrett Browning selected verse
By: edited by Johanna Brownell
Contributors: Brownell, Johanna
Publisher: Castle Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Edison, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780785813385
Subjects: English poetry; English Love poetry; Sonnets
Other titles: Selected verse
Work titles: Poems
Description: This collection contains poems Elizabeth Browning wrote in her early days as well as the last poems she wrote before her death at 55: ballads, religious, social-reforming, and political verse. Included are: "The Dream," "The Image of God," "A Sea-Side Meditation," "The Tempest," "Night and the Merry Man," "The Romaunt of Margret," "The Romance of the Ganges," "The Lost Bower," "Rime of the Duchess May," "Catarina to Camoens," "The Romance of the Swan's Nest," "A Man's Requirements," "A Woman's Shortcomings," "A Curse Before a Nation," "Christmas Gifts," "My Heart and I," "A Musical Instrument," and several others, all of which demonstrate Browning's astonishing versatility and mastery of the English language.