Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a Victorian English poet, among the most celebrated of her era.
Her verse novel *Aurora Leigh* and her *Sonnets from the Portuguese*—love poems addressed to her husband Robert Browning—remain widely read.
The Brownings' courtship and elopement to Italy, defying her controlling father, became one of literature's famous romances.
Seeking another's romantic favor
- elopementSecret departure to wed
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- passionIntense emotional drive
- ardorIntense emotional warmth
affection · romance · intimacy · letters · forbidden love · Italy · marriage · partnership
Unstressed-stressed pattern, five feet
- lyricSong's text
- dramatic monologuePoem as character's speech
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
- rhyme schemeSound-matching arrangement in poetry
stanza · imagery · volta · octave · sestet · Petrarchan sonnet · couplet · meter
- canonAccepted authoritative works
- legacyWhat's passed down
- reputationCollective opinion of someone
- foremotherFemale forebear
Virginia Woolf · Alfred Tennyson · Edgar Allan Poe · anthology · scholarship · biography · revival · recognition
Opium dissolved in alcohol
- invalidWithout legal force
- elopementSecret departure to wed
- FlorenceTuscan capital city
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
spiritualism · mesmerism · correspondence · salon · Queen Victoria · drawing room · seclusion · tuberculosis
Formal discontinuation of practice
- child laborMinors performing paid work
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- women's educationInstruction for females
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
emancipation · advocacy · slavery · oppression · justice · compassion · conscience · political poetry
courtship
Seeking another's romantic favor
ardor · affection · romance · intimacy · letters · forbidden love · Italy · marriage · partnership · muse
iambic pentameter
Unstressed-stressed pattern, five feet
- lyricSong's text
- dramatic monologuePoem as character's speech
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
rhyme scheme · stanza · imagery · volta · octave · sestet · Petrarchan sonnet · couplet · meter · enjambment
Emily Dickinson
- canonAccepted authoritative works
- legacyWhat's passed down
- reputationCollective opinion of someone
Virginia Woolf · Alfred Tennyson · Edgar Allan Poe · foremother · anthology · scholarship · biography · revival · recognition
laudanum
Opium dissolved in alcohol
abolition · spiritualism · mesmerism · correspondence · salon · Queen Victoria · drawing room · seclusion · tuberculosis · Jamaica
abolition
Formal discontinuation of practice
- child laborMinors performing paid work
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- women's educationInstruction for females
suffrage · emancipation · advocacy · slavery · oppression · justice · compassion · conscience · political poetry · liberty
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningT.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound · Samuel Beckett · Charles Bukowski · minimalism · ironic detachment
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRudyard Kipling
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