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(0)Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Author
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
The face of Robert Browning gives nothing away -- handsome and polished, it offers no hold to those who would pry into the soul behind. Its metallic mirror gives us back ourselves. But the face of Elizabeth Barret Browning speaks openly of her sufferings -- of ill health, of an iron father, of miscarriages -- yet speaking in the accents of courage and good sense. Any woman of sensitivity and talent can imagine herself as Elizabeth, in the hope that...
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The first disc of this unique treasury introduces their poetry in a biographical context, revealing the influence of their passionate, committed love upon the evolution of their writing and dedication to social issues. Disc 2 presents the complete reading of Elizabeth's "Sonnets from the Portuguese" and Robert's best-known works including "Rabbi Ben Ezra, " "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad, " and "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister."
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