The epitome of the Victorian poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning is one of few poets whose work was not only widely appreciated during her lifetime, but whose verses have also entered the language of popular culture in such a way that her poems seem to have lives of their own. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s life reads like […]

Do you recognize these famous lines? Most likely you do, even if you do not know where you first heard them. They are lines that live in infamy, lines that have been repeated infinite times, parodied and bandied about for generations. But do you know from whence these vaunted lines sprung? These are the first […]