10 love poems by Elizabeth Barret Browning

If an author’s personal history influences the depth of his or her work, the love poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning are the ones that could best attest to this hasty conjecture.

Elizabeth Barrett was an isolated, lonely, melancholic woman; She suffered terrible physical pain that prevented her from moving around and that eventually ended up making her a little phobic of people and especially men. She suffered her life, more than living it, and from those intimate sufferings she wrote unforgettable verses. But it is not in misfortune that an author finds her best pages, and Elizabeth Barrett was only able to speak about love with justice when Robert Browning, also a poet, began to court her by letter.

They wrote to each other for months. Elizabeth postponed the meeting as long as she could, until Robert decided to show up at her house and inform her in the most vivid terms that she was the woman of her life. Since then, Elizabeth Barrett, who was also Browning, left us the best love poems of her period.

10 love poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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