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The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 2

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A shadow rises from a moonlit river to question a woman about the people she loves. That unsettling scene opens this second volume of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s collected poetry, where storytelling verse gives private feelings a visible, sometimes supernatural shape. In “The Romaunt of Margret,” the repeated name and recurring challenges make affection sound increasingly fragile. “Isobel’s Child” begins with a mother taking over the watch beside her feverish baby.

The selection also includes “Lady Geraldine’s Courtship,” presented as a poet’s letter to a friend from a room at Wycombe Hall. His love for an earl’s daughter exposes the distance between inherited wealth and his own peasant origins. Readers interested in nineteenth-century poetry will find narrative voices, patterned stanzas, family bonds, religious feeling and the pressure of social rank gathered within one volume.

About the author

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was one of the most acclaimed English poets of the Victorian era. Her passionate, socially engaged verse and her romance with Robert Browning made her a literary legend.