Aurora Leigh and Other Poems

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) - née Barrett English poet, the wife of Robert Browning, the most respected and successful woman poet of the Victorian period.

• Aurora Leigh and Other Poems - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Edited by John Robert Glorney Bolton and Julia Bolton HollowayPrefaceAcknowledgmentsTable of DatesFurther ReadingAurora LeighFrom Essay on Mind, with Other Poems (1826)Verses to My BrotherStanzas on the Death of Lord Byron [1824]Lines on the Portrait of the Widow of RiegoFrom Prometheus Bound, and Miscellaneous Poems (1833)The Death-Bed of Teresa del RiegoThe Cry of the Children (1843, 1844)From Poems (1844)Past and FutureTo George Sand. A DesireLady Geraldine's CourtshipCrowned and Wedded [1840]Wine of CyprusThe Dead PanCaterina to CamoënsThe Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point (1848, 1849, 1850)From Poems (1850)Flush or FaunusHiram Powers' Greek SlaveHugh Stuart Boyd: His BlindnessHugh Stuart Boyd: LegaciesSonnets from the Portugese [1846]Casa Guidi Windows (1851)From Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert BrowningA Plea for the Ragged Schools of LondonFrom Poems Before Congress (1860)Christmas GiftsFrom Last Poems (1862)The North and the South [1861]Psyche Gazing on Cupid [1845]NotesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines

"Her ardour and abundance, her brilliant descriptive powers, her shrewd and caustic humour infect us with her own enthusiasm. We laugh, we protest, we complain – it is absurd, it is impossible, we cannot tolerate this exaggeration a moment longer – but, nevertheless, we read to the end enthralled. What more can an author ask?"—Virginia Woolf