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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. 371
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the little catastrop craft . D he anger no was one not could dreamt divine in of si the by ht any cause of their one ; — but indeed in windows a , after few
all and _rninutes who just were after as they in their her were embarkation erished crossing . , Even the and bar the , the g bodies boat were went very never down found , and . , p
trated feeling " This by that traged the she horror y nearl had and y heen killed grief in Miss , some and Barrett sort a natural the ; she cause , but was of utterl most this y unjust great
prosremoved misery . , in It an was invalid not carriage until the and following by journeys year of tw that enty she miles could a day be ,
to her afflicted family and her , London home . On her return began the life which she continued for so years—confined to one
large own famil and commodious and a few , devoted but darkened friends many chamber were admitted , to which . Reading only her , y
in _guage meanwhile the ; ori stud inal , almost ying and with every iving ever book - herself fresh worth deli heart g reading ht and the , soul great in almost to classic that every poetry authors lan of _^ -
which she g seemed ; born g to be the priestess . Miss Barrett ' s voca-. tion at ten had disp old layed and itself well very at fifteen early . in Her life first ; she important wrote largel essay y
in authorshi years p was , a translation of the Prometheus' of . _ZEschylus , the nounced published collected this anonymousl edition attempt of y a her in failure works 1833 , ; and b her an it own was entirel maturer , therefore y new jud version , gment replaced . Five pro in
y ye were ars an later intermediate appeared position ' The Serap between him , ' — an a ancient poem , Greek holding tragedy , as it
during and , a Christian the progress mystery of her ; the labors idea of on whi the ch ' Prometheus had suggested Bound itself . ' of
With it were associated some miscellaneous poems , a portion had which won had ( in alread ite y of appeared some ob in scurit the pages of manner of periodicals and expression , where ) hi they gh y
sp Thoug appreciation h chiefl for y known their poetic to the beaut multitude y and by earnest these productions tone articles of feeling , Miss the .
to B Greek arrett afford Christian als evidence © wrote Poets of many unusuall , and admirable other keen subjects and insi erudite ht , which and prose extended were considered intellec on - g
y , , sli tiial Bobert g Ci ht Aft attainments improvement er Browning a long . continuance the took poet place of and , and her immediat in secluded 1846 el she y life after became , a gradual her the marriage thoug wife of h
which accompanie has d continued him , to Pisa to be . They , their subsequently permanent home removed althoug to Florence h occa- ,
, friends sional visits of rejoicing to England with have her afforded in a somewhat _ojDportunity renewed to Mrs . measure Browning of ' s her collected
obtained poems health , and in two strength general volumes . acknowle , gave The pub a great dgment lication impetu of in her s 1850 to title her to of reputation rankin many , and
_XDoints of very viewas the first female poet of the age . A small , number ,
of unpublished poenis appeared in this edition .
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 371
_ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING . 371
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/11/
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