Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets (ebok) av Ukjent
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (The Great Poets) ebok

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'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 remains very much loved today.She was also a strong advocate for human rights…

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Undertittel Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets
Forfattere Ukjent (forfatter), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (forfatter)
Utgitt 23 mars 2024
Sjanger Lyrikk og dramatikk, Skjønnlitteratur, Kunst og kultur, Dokumentar og fakta
Språk English
Format epub
DRM-beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781399614092

'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 remains 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 send it over the western sea" '