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Alexandra S.
10-25-2009, 12:25 PM
E.B is one of my favorite poets and I really admire her for her strength throughout her poems,she is very thoughtfull and writes very inspirational poems!A few words about her:
She was born in Durham,Engald in 1806.She was educated at home and attented lessons with her brother's tutor and thus well-educated for a girl at that time.Her first poem,ritten before she was eight,was a long Homeric poem titled The Battle of Marathon which was published when she was fourteen at her father's cost.

I chose literature for my semester and I think that I did the right thing.Victorian poetry thrilled me from the very beginning.Her two poems "The cry of the childre"and "Aurora Leigh" are fabulous and extremely interesting from my perspective!I would be very glad if you could share your opinions with me about these two poems!
Lokasenna
10-25-2009, 12:32 PM
Cry of the Children is one of the most haunting things I have ever read. My university actually owns her own hand-written draft of it... they let me get my hands on it the other day as part of a manuscript session... what a feeling...
Alexandra S.
10-25-2009, 12:42 PM
are you serious???well that is incredible!!!Id love to feel that too!!You know her poems are so different because their subjects are so serious!Im done with love and romace,her poems go deep to the problems of her times!
Whats your university?
Warwick
10-25-2009, 01:49 PM
A parliamentary commission was established and it investigated the conditions of the employment of children in mines and factories; the commission's report was written by R. H. Horne, a friend and collaborator of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Many of the details of Browning's 1843 poem The Cry of the Children are taken from the report of the commission.
Lokasenna
10-25-2009, 02:27 PM
are you serious???well that is incredible!!!Id love to feel that too!!You know her poems are so different because their subjects are so serious!Im done with love and romace,her poems go deep to the problems of her times!
Whats your university?

The University of Durham. Our Special Collection is one of the best in the country, and they really do like to show off their stuff.
Alexandra S.
10-25-2009, 02:31 PM
And I think they have every right to do that!I study in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,English literature department. So I assume that you can read many stuff about her,unless she's not your favourite.