Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage. Still popular more than a century after their deaths, their poetry vividly reflects the unique nature of their relationship.
This collection presents the Brownings' work in the context of their lives: the early years and their initial friendship, their courtship and marriage, the fifteen happy years they spent living in Italy until Elizabeth's death. Both in shorter poems such as Elizabeth's "Hector in the Garden” and Robert's "Natural Magic," or in extracts from longer works such as Aurora Leigh and Pauline, the great themes they shared are all represented: love, marriage, illicit passion, England and Italy, childhood, religion, poetry, and nature.

Elizabeth's famous Sonnets from the Portuguese, based on their love affair, is included in its entirety. The poems are augmented with a generous selection of the marvellous letters the Brownings wrote to each other.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.

1899. Part Two of Two. With portraits and facsimiles. Collection of correspondence between the two noted English poets who met and married. Note: In considering the question of publishing these letters, which are all that ever passed between my father and mother, for after their marriage they were never separated, it seemed to me that my only alternatives were to allow them to be published or to destroy them. They are printed exactly as the original appears. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417905271.

1899. Part Two of Two. With portraits and facsimiles. Collection of correspondence between the two noted English poets who met and married. Note: In considering the question of publishing these letters, which are all that ever passed between my father and mother, for after their marriage they were never separated, it seemed to me that my only alternatives were to allow them to be published or to destroy them. They are printed exactly as the original appears. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417905271.

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1899. Part One of Two. With portraits and facsimiles. Collection of correspondence between the two noted English poets who met and married. Note: In considering the question of publishing these letters, which are all that ever passed between my father and mother, for after their marriage they were never separated, it seemed to me that my only alternatives were to allow them to be published or to destroy them. They are printed exactly as the original appears. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 141790528X.

1899. Part One of Two. With portraits and facsimiles. Collection of correspondence between the two noted English poets who met and married. Note: In considering the question of publishing these letters, which are all that ever passed between my father and mother, for after their marriage they were never separated, it seemed to me that my only alternatives were to allow them to be published or to destroy them. They are printed exactly as the original appears. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 141790528X.