ELIZABETH B BROWNING SL

by Margaret Forster

This classic series of poets is printed in deluxe cloth editions. These selections represent the finest works of the world's most eminent poets.

Genres: Poetry

224 pages, Hardcover

Published July 27, 1988

About the author

Margaret Forster was educated at the Carlisle and County High School for Girls. From here she won an Open Scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford where in 1960 she was awarded an honours degree in History.

From 1963 Margaret Forster worked as a novelist, biographer and freelance literary critic, contributing regularly to book programmes on television, to Radio 4 and various newpapers and magazines.

Forster was married to the writer, journalist and broadcaster Hunter Davies. They lived in London. and in the Lake District. They had three children, Caitlin, Jake and Flora.

Reviews

[Micah Cummins · Rating 5 out of 5]

I only recently was introduced to Elizabeth Barret Browning, and I am already swept away. This is a beautiful collection of some of her work.

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice collection but I feel like Sullivan was a little bit too enthusiastic on pushing the 'aww she thought NO ONE would EVER love her because she was an INVALID and she DIED YOUNG and she was TRAGIC' narrative, it kept picking all the ones about death and grief and illness, and a lot of the 'extracts from...' were very short so kinda lacked on giving the impression of the longer poems they were from. Still, Elizabeth ur my no.1 romantic poet 🙏🏻💯

[Sterling Wesson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Any of the long poems or ones with a lot of overt religious references aren’t worth reading in my opinion unless you want to understand Browning’s upbringing but the rest is quite good.

[Karen L.]

What a gifted poet.

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful. As usual when reading poetry, I didn't understand every poem in this anthology, but Barrett Browning's use of language is beautiful. I especially enjoyed "The Sleep" and "Little Mattie."

[Summers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed reading the poetry. I'll read through more in the future.