Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (1806-1861)

English Poet Known for “How Do I Love Thee”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the finest woman poet in England famous for the line “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” She is best remembered for her beautiful love poems inspired by her husband Robert Browning.

English poet Elizabeth Barrett, (1806-1861), was born on March 6, in Coxhoe Hall, Durham. She grew up in the west of England, at Hope Hill in Herefordshire, the eldest of 12 children of a rich British owner of Jamaican estates.

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Works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

Works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• The Seraphim and Other Poems, 1838
• Poems, 1844 (including “The Cry of the Children”)
• Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1850
• Casa Guidi Windows, 1851
• Aurora Leigh, 1856
• Poems Before Congress, 1860
• Last Poems, 1862 (Published after she died)

Emily Dickinson

This day, December 10 (1830), Emily Dickinson is born in Amherst, Massachusetts.

She was an American poet, considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.

She spent most of her adult life in her father’s house, in her own corner bedroom. The room contained, among others, a writing table, a dresser, a clock, and pictures on the wall of three writers: George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Thomas Carlyle.

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