Astrology Moon in Libra Nov 17, 2009
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Emily Dickinson. (Suite101.com)
Autumn's colours Nov 9, 2009
Here are some of the best we have received - accompanied by the autumnal poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Clare, as read by BBC Radio 4 newsreaders Peter Donaldson and Charlotte Green ... Excerpts from The Autumn, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, read by Peter Donaldson. (BBC News -- UK)
Barrett Browning's Sonnet 6 Aug 1, 2009
In Elizabeth Barrett Browning s from Sonnets from the Portuguese, the speaker is commanding her beloved to leave her. As she has protested in earlier sonnets, she does not believe she is equal to his stature, and such a match could not withstand the scrutiny of their class society. (Suite101.com)
GRSF sonnet contest returns May 7, 2009
For those looking for inspiration, Armstrong suggests reading sonnets by poets such as John Keats, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, David Wojahn, Molly Peacock, Ron Wallace, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and, of course, Shakespeare. It helps give you the rhythm, Armstrong said. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Valley happenings Apr 17, 2009
Maureen Adams, author of "Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Bronte," was featured on NPR's "To the Best of Our Knowledge" show last Sunday. Adams husband, Marty Adams, served as winemaker at Sebastiani and as a principal in Sonoma Cheese Factory for several years. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
M-Z Essential 1700s and 1800s Briti... Mar 22, 2009
These are the best known and most respected poetic efforts of the sickly Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), who was strongly considered as the successor of William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate. Famously, Elizabeth Barrett was the wife of fellow poet, Robert Browning (1812-1889). (Suite101.com)
Scribblers of America, Unite! Mar 9, 2009
The previous year, Ellen Moers' brilliant (and, sadly, out of print) was attacked by Anne Tyler for arguing that great women writers like Dickinson, Collette, and Woolf shared something like a literary tradition with lesser writers like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Fanny Fern. You can see why Tyler bridled: After all, it was the misogynists who usually grouped women writers together, the better to dismiss them allNathaniel Hawthorne's "damned mob of scribbling women," churning out their... (Slate)
What Could The Mystery Behind The Plantation Be About? -- New Book Follows the Struggles of Lady in Finding the Secret Behind Her Family's Plantation Mar 7, 2009
She greatly admires the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson and finds William Shakespeare's words of love ever timeless. Like Ms. Austen, she has never married but has loved and is loved. (Primezone Releases)
The Almanac -- weekly Feb 24, 2009
They include Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo in 1475; French dramatist Cyrano de Bergerac in 1619; English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1806; Union Army Gen. Philip Sheridan in 1831; humorist and short story writer Ring Lardner in 1885; Texas swing bandleader Bob Wills in 1905; comic actor Lou Costello (Abbott and Costello) in 1906; TV personality Ed McMahon in 1923 (age 86); symphony conductor Sarah Caldwell in 1924; former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan in 1926... (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Pilgrim Reflections Feb 12, 2009
That was the way Elizabeth Barrett Browning started out her poem to her husband, Robert, one day while expressing her love to him. Born in 1806 in Durham, England, the oldest of 12 children, she developed a lung ailment at age 14 that would plague her the rest of her life. (DeWitt Era-Enterprise, AR)
Save yourself: You don’t have to break the bank to show some love Feb 8, 2009
Elizabeth Barrett Browning s Sonnets to the Portuguese a classic as well: intense Victorian desire. About this series. (Winona Daily News, MN)
