Learn Quick Facts about
Elizabeth Browning.
Each Thursday for the next fifty weeks I will be blogging about a famous poet. I have picked 50 poets to write quick facts about. We are on week 2!
This week’s famous poet is Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Last week’s famous poet was Emily Elizabeth Dickinson.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a
famous poet. She started writing poems at a young age. She began writing
poems sometime between six and eleven years old. She wrote well over 100 poems. She
was born in County Durham, England. Her parents’ names are Edward Barrett
Moulton and Mary Graham Clarke. She had eleven siblings: eight brothers and
three sisters. Keep reading to find out more about Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Here is a list of some poems/writings by Elizabeth Barrett
Browning:
- The Cry of the Children
- A Child Asleep
- A Musical Instrument
- Sabbath Morning at Sea
- Grief
- The Soul’s Expression
- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
- Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers
- A Dead Rose
Quick facts about Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
1. She was born March 6, 1806, in County Durham, England.
2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was 55 years old when she
died. She passed away on June 29, 1861. She is buried in The English Cemetery
in Florence, Italy. She is buried in a beautiful tomb. On the ground, during
the spring beautiful irises and other flowers are growing all
around it.
3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s most famous poem is:
How Do
I Love Thee?
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
(You can print out a worksheet on this poem. You will fill in the missing words in the poem)
4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning married Robert Browning. He
was also a famous poet. They had one child and his name was Robert Wiedeman
Barrett-Browning. His nickname was Pen. Elizabeth was forty-three years old
when Pen was born.
5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s last word was “beautiful”. She
died peacefully in her husband’s arms. Scientists believe she may have died from
hypokalemic periodic paralysis.
6. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was against slavery. She wrote
two poems about slavery: “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” and “A Curse
for a Nation”.
7. She loved to read books, ride ponies, and have picnics. When she was younger her and her family would put on plays for family and friends to watch. She had a pet dog named Flush. Flush was a spaniel. She received the dog as a gift from Mary Mitford. Mary Mitford was a famous author. Elizabeth met several authors, poets, and artists during her adult life.
8. Elizabeth suffered from head and spinal pain starting
when she was around 15 years old. She took opiates for the pain and became
addicted to them and used them for most of her adult life. She also became ill
with a lung disease later in her life.
9. She got her education at home. She was taught by her
oldest brother Edward and a tutor. She learned to write when she was about four
years old.
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Books about Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
1. How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2. The Brownings for the Young by Robert Browning
3. How Do I love Thee? by Jennifer Adams
Parents/caretakers be sure books are child-friendly before
reading them to your child/children.
Thank you for
reading my poet post!! If you find a mistake, please advise me. Tune in next
week to learn some quick facts about Edgar Allan Poe!
"You were made perfectly to be loved, and
surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long." —
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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