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BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT, an English poet, born in Durham, March 6, 1809. In September, 1846, she married Robert Browning. Her chief poems are The Seraphim (1838); Romaunt of the Page (1839); The Drama of Exile (1844); A Vision of Poets (1844); The Cry of the Children (1844); Casa Guidi Windows (1851); Aurora Leigh (1856). Her Sonnets from the Portuguese are among the noblest of love poems. The Romance of the Swan's Nest, the Rhyme of the Duchess May, the Romaunt of Margret, Bertha in the Lane, and Isabel's Child, are romantic and original ballads. Prometheus Bound, a metrical translation of Æschylus, was published in 1850. She died in Florence, June 30, 1861.


ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

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