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Showing posts with label Robert Browning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Browning. Show all posts
Monday, February 14, 2022

Robert Browning*

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Robert Browning (1812—1889) is seen today, not only as one of the major poets of the 19th century, but as a celebrated romantic figure. He a...
Monday, October 11, 2021

Elizabeth Barrett Browning*

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806―1861) is one of the nineteenth century’s greatest poets. She was outspoken against many abuses of human rig...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874―1942) is a Canadian author, particularly famous for her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables , and its sequels. Much o...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Olav H. Hauge

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Olav H. Hauge (1908—1994) is a poet of Norway who also learned to speak English, German and French. He translated many foreign poets into No...
Monday, September 2, 2019

Elizabeth Barrett Browning*

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806—1861) is one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century. She suffered from ill health from her teens o...
Monday, November 26, 2018

Francis Thompson*

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Francis Thompson (1859—1907) was uninspired as a medical student, and neglected his studies. During an illness he became addicted to opium, ...
Monday, September 3, 2018

Robert Browning*

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Robert Browning (1812—1889) is as much celebrated for his romance with poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning as he is for his poetry. His first pu...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Elizabeth Barrett Browning*

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806—1861) is one of the nineteenth century's most influential poets. She was so admired by Emily Dickinson ...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861—1907) is a British writer, who also wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos (a character in the George MacDon...
Monday, December 24, 2012

John Donne*

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John Donne (1572―1631) has now been established as one of the English language’s greatest poets; this was not always the case. In his own da...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Christopher Smart

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Christopher Smart (1722—1771) distinguished himself through his poetry while attending Cambridge University. Later, however — when he worked...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) was a prominent English Victorian poet. She had been a prodigy who, while still young, became enthusi...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning (1812–1889) is one of the major figures of 19th century poetry. Ironically, prior to the death of his wife, Elizabeth Barret...