"What is genius -- but the power of expressing a new individuality?"
Dared and Done : The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
(Julia Markus
)
A Riveting and brilliant work of biography. The story of two great English poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, whose work was immediately recognized and adored by their contemporaries, whose courtship ranks with the great love stories of all time -- and in whose marriage romance was not merely sustained but intensified.
Sonnets from the Portuguese : A Celebration of Love
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning
)
"I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett . . . I love you too", Robert Browning wrote in January 1845, thus initiating the most celebrated literary correspondence of the 19th century. For the next 12 months, he and Elizabeth Barrett exchanged letters and confidences. In this elegant format, the delicate interplay between the poems and the lovers' letters become vividly apparent.
