WELLESLEY, Mass. — "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett ..." So begins the first love letter to 19th century poet Elizabeth Barrett from her future husband, fellow poet Robert ...

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Robert Browning (1812–1889) was an English poet and ...

The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem, and, more specifically, a verse novel, of 21,000 lines. The book tells the story of a murder trial in Rome in 1698, whereby an impoverished ...

WELLESLEY, Mass. — "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett ..." So begins the first love letter to 19th-century poet Elizabeth Barrett from her future husband, fellow poet Robert ...

Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, England. Browning married the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and lived with her in Florence, Italy. After her death in 1861, he moved to London ...

One monk’s foibles are another’s motivation for murder in this growling outburst of a poem, told with a rhythm that punches like a fist Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister I Gr-r- r – there go, my heart ...

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