Elizabeth Barrett Browning

**Elizabeth Barrett Browning** (pokraj Durhama, 6. mart 1806. - Firenca, 29. juni 1861.), engleska književnica

Od čitavog njenog opsežnog, ali često nedovoljno oblikovanog stvaralaštva, održali su se u književnosti "Krik djece", patetični protest protiv eksploatacije dječjeg rada u tvornicama, i ciklus soneta "Soneti s portugalskog", poetski dokaz njene ljubavi prema suprugu, pjesniku R. Browningu, a ubraja se među najbolje ljubavne pjesme u engleskoj književnosti. U spjevovima "Prozori palače Guidi" i "Pjesme Kongrsu" inspirirala se borbama za oslobođenje Italije, a djelo "Aurora Leigh" je odraz političkih i društvenih prlika u viktorijanskoj Engleskoj. Njezino djelo karakteriše dubina osjećaja, ljubav prema Italiji i obilje autobiografskih elemenata.

Barrett Browning je tokom najveći dio života bila pogođena nikad precizno dijagosticiranom bolešću, zbog koje je rijetko izlazila iz kuće. Usprkos tome, započela je ljubavnu vezu sa šest godina mlađim pjesnikom Robertom Browningom za koga se, usprkos žestokog protivljenja porodice, udala i rodila mu sina. Njen život je 1930. godine postao predmet popularne kazališne predstave *[[The Barretts of Wimpole Street]]* Rudolfa Besiera, u kojoj je njen lik tumačila Katharine Cornell. Ista je predstava četiri godine kasnije adaptirana u nagrađivani film.

## Bibliografija
* 1820: *[[The Battle of Marathon: A Poem]]*. Privately printed
* 1826: *A Essay On Mind, with Other Poems*. London: James Duncan
* 1833: *Prometheus Bound, Translated from the Greek of Aeschylus,and Miscellaneous Poems*. London: A.J. Valpy
* 1838: *The Seraphim, and Other Poems*. London: Saunders and Otley
* 1844: *Poems* (UK) / *A Drama of Exile, and other Poems* (US). London: Edward Moxon. New York: Henry G. Langley
* 1850: *Poems* ("New Edition", 2 vols.) Revision of 1844 edition adding *Sonnets from the Portuguese* and others. London: Chapman & Hall
* 1851: *Casa Guidi Windows*. London: Chapman & Hall
* 1853: *Poems* (3d ed.). London: Chapman & Hall
* 1854: *Two Poems*: "A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London" and "The Twins". London: Bradbury & Evans
* 1856: *Poems* (4th ed.). London: Chapman & Hall
* 1857: *Aurora Leigh*. London: Chapman and Hall
* 1860: *Poems Before Congress*. London: Chapman & Hall
* 1862: *Last Poems*. London: Chapman & Hall

### Posthumna izdanja
* 1863: *The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets*. London: Chapman & Hall
* 1877: *The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,* 1826–1833, ed. Richard Herne Shepherd. London: Bartholomew Robson
* 1877: *Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Addressed to Richard Hengist Horne, with comments on contemporaries,* 2 vols., ed. S.R.T. Mayer. London: Richard Bentley & Son
* 1897: *Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,* 2 vols., ed. Frederic G. Kenyon. London:Smith, Elder,& Co.
* 1899: *Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845–1846,* 2 vol., ed Robert W. Barrett Browning. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
* 1914: *New Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning,* ed. Frederic G Kenyon. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
* 1929: *Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Letters to Her Sister, 1846–1859,* ed. Leonard Huxley. London: John Murray
* 1935: *Twenty-Two Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning to Henrietta and Arabella Moulton Barrett*. New York: United Feature Syndicate
* 1939: *Letters from Elizabeth Barrett to B.R. Haydon,* ed. Martha Hale Shackford. New York: Oxford University Press
* 1954: *Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford,* ed. Betty Miller. London: John Murry
* 1955: *Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Hugh Stuart Boyd,* ed. Barbara P. McCarthy. New Heaven, Conn.: Yale University Press
* 1958: *Letters of the Brownings to George Barrett,* ed. Paul Landis with Ronald E. Freeman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press
* 1974: *Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy,* 1849–1861, ed. P. Heydon and P. Kelley. New York: Quadrangle, New York Times Book Co., and Browning Institute
* 1984: *The Brownings' Correspondence,* ed. Phillip Kelley, Ronald Hudson, and Scott Lewis. Winfield, Kans.: Wedgestone Press

## Vanjske veze

* Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning at Archive.org
* Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning at The Online Books Page 
* Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning at PoetryFoundation.org
* The Brownings: A Research Guide (Baylor University) 
* Project Gutenberg e-text of *[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2002 Sonnets from the Portuguese] *
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* Browning Family Collection  at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin
* Digitized Browning love letters at Baylor University