Elizabeth Browning Research Paper

Thanks to her amazing work and talent writing some of the most memorable poems ever made, Elizabeth Browning has earned the title as one of the greater poets of our known time. Elizabeth Browning was a great poet of the Victorian era, She was born on March 6, 1806 in England and died on June 29 1861. She was heavily inspired by her own life and love, she often wrote about reflections on her own experiences. Browning has and always will be considered an amazing poet.
Browning was a highly talented poet who grew up in a large family with a very strict father. While young she was very limited in ways to show how she felt so it was easy for her to take to poetry which is another outlet for someone who is very limited. It is known that she had a rocky relationship with her immediate family, “All eleven children who suffered the extraordinary rigidity of his rule against marriage” (“Elizabeth Browning”). Due to to her father's strict rules she naturally rebelled and gravitated towards and having a …show more content…
One cannot talk about english literature without this poem, “Whenever English love poetry is discussed, almost invariably the opening of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s penultimate poem of Sonnets from the Portuguese is quoted: “How do I love thee?”( “Sonnets from the Portuguese”). It is said “Browning’s masterpiece, Sonnets from the Portuguese, went through a complete cycle of literary reception, first being overpraised as “the noblest [sonnets] ever written,” then undervalued as overly emotional effusions, and eventually accepted as a major work. (“Sonnets from the Portuguese”) which essentially means that this was one of the most undervalued poems followed by being one of the most overvalued poems. It is actually neither, currently it one of the most creative and original great poems. This , however is not her only great work; She has several other noteworthy great