Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese
Written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Narrated by Ghizela Rowe
4/5
()
About this audiobook
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was an English poet. The daughter of a wealthy family—her father made his fortune as a slave owner in Jamaica, while her mother’s family owned and operated sugar plantations, mills, and ships—Browning eventually became an abolitionist and advocate for child labor laws. Her marriage to the prominent Victorian poet Robert Browning caused the final break between Browning and her family, after which she moved to Italy and lived there with Robert for the rest of her life. She began writing poems at a young age, finding success with the 1844 publication of Poems. Browning went on to be recognized as one of the foremost poets of early Victorian England, influencing such writers as Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson. She is most famous for her Sonnets from the Portuguese, a collection of 44 love poems published in 1850, and Aurora Leigh, an 1856 epic poem described by leading Victorian critic John Ruskin as the greatest long poem written in the nineteenth century. Browning suffered from numerous illnesses throughout her life, eventually succumbing in Florence at the age of 55.
More audiobooks from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Classic Love Poetry: Poems to fall in love with or for those you fell in love with Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poetry of Dogs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Top 50 Poems: Fifty of the finest poems ever written Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic ― Birthdays: 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSlavery, A Tyranny In Verse Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Related audiobooks
The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Poems from one half of literatures most famous couple Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry of George Eliot Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Poems from New Zealands greatest writer and her tragically young life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fortunate Foundlings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poetry Of Amy Lowell Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poetry Of Charlotte Bronte Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Story of the Wedding Tour Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amy Levy - A Short Story Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry Of Ella Wheeler Wilcox Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Marquise Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coleridge Poems Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Poetry of Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNight and Day Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Little Dinner At Timmin's Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cupid's Bedside Book: Great Classic Love Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poetry of Aphra Behn Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great Women Fiction Writers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSonnets from the Portuguese Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wings of the Dove Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Black Tulip Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bronte's Mistress: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poet Laureates Volume 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry of Flowers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Room of One's Own Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFifty Shades of Marriage: 50 of the best poems about marriage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDon Juan Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Poetry For You
Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Strength In Our Scars Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poetry of Walt Whitman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Inferno of Dante Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun and Her Flowers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Classic Hundred Poems: All-Time Favorites Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Milk and Honey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read by Jeremy Irons Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5W. B. Yeats: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf: Translated by Seamus Heaney Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5John Keats - The Poetry Of Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Metamorphoses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Poems: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Promises of Gold Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Raven Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Elizabeth Barrett Browning
33 ratings1 review
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There's no doubt that Browning's sonnets stand out above many of the poems here, but this small edition does hold together as a smooth and varied collection of her works. For a reader who doesn't need or want the added explanations that an editor might provide, and who simply wants a sample of Browning's lovely work, this might well be a worthwhile choice. Certainly, many of Browning's words feel dated and idealistic today, but they stand as a beautiful collection of poems from another time, and one worth revisiting.