Lesson 5 Flashcards
No female poet was held in higher esteem among cultured readers in both the United States and England than _______ during the nineteenth century
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Even in this 21st Century she is remembered with admiration and relevance for her________ and________
humane
feminist views
Even in this 21st Century she is remembered with admiration and relevance for her________ and________
humane
feminist views
Robert Browning used to address her in his pet name and Elizabeth wrote in ____________
“My Little Portuguese”
sonnet-33 “Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear “
Elizabeth Barrette Browning was one of the most prominent Victorian _________ feminist poet
rationale
A_________ and liberal attitude to life and living were manifested in her poems
humane
She was, to be frank, ______ in almost every respect
self-taught
Edgar Allen Poe called her_________ and borrowed the theme of his prem “Raven” from her poem
the noblest of her sex
Elizabeth Barette Browning was a reminist who dared to condemn the silliness of the feminist in the name of _______
feminism
After reading___________ Browning, in January 1845, wrote a letter to Elizabeth which began, “I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett”
Lady Geraldine’s Courtship
During this period of courtship Elizabeth was engaged in composing love sonnets which were published under the title________ in 1850
sonnets from Portuguese”
Right from Petrarch, almost every sonneteer viewed love emotion from the ________
male parameter
Elizabeth’s father gets _______ printed
Battle of Marathon
1820
Her first published work, is published in Literary Gazette
The Rose and Zephyr
1825
Publishes first volume of poems,_______ anonymously
An Essay on Mind
1826
publishes ____________, a translation from Greek playwright Aeschylus, again anonymously
Prometheus Bound
1833
Publishes the _________ and other Poems under her own name
Seraphim
1838
She writes _____articulating her grief; it will be published posthumously. Additionally, she writes ______ for an edition of poetry by Chaucer and _________attacking Child Labour.
“De Profundis”
“Queen Annelida and False Arcite”
“The Cry of the Children”
1840
Publishes _______. A popular work, it helps bring about the regulation of Child Labour
“The Cry of the Children”
1842
Elizabethan begins work on a serries of love and poems, Sonnets from the Portuguesse, named frm the Robert Brownings’s pet name for her,
'’the Portuguese’’
1845
Publishes a new two-volume edition of Poems ythat includes the Sonnets from the Portuguese
1850
publishes_________, a work about Italy, including political reflections
Casa Guidi Windows
1851
Publishes Aurora Leigh, a novel in verse
1857
Publishes Poems Before Congress, a collection of politcal poems
1860
