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‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.’

British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806.

Barrett Browning’s poetry was hugely influential during the 19th century, and this line is from her best-known work, ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’, a collection of love sonnets dedicated to her husband Robert Browning.

This portrait shows Barrett Browning aged 50, just five years before her death in Florence

🔎 After Field Talfourd (1815–1874), ‘Portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning aged 50’. Photomechanical colour print, c.1899. Read more: http://ow.ly/4B1H30rxWkS

The Riddle of Edgar Allan Poe's Death Despite his macabre literary genius, Edgar Allan Poe’s life was short and largely unhappy. After his young wife, Virginia, got tuberculosis in 1842 and died

‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.’

English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806.

Barrett Browning’s poetry was hugely influential during the 19th century, and this extract is from her best-known work, ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’, a collection of love sonnets dedicated to her husband Robert Browning.


🔎 After Field Talfourd (1815–1874), ‘Portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning aged 50’. Photomechanical colour print, c.1899. Read more: http://ow.ly/4B1H30rxWkS

This Edgar Allan Poe-Inspired Cake Has A Beating Jello Heart And Goth Fans Are Loving It The cake looks like an actual heart full of blood and it is placed on top of a copy of Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart.

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5 Facts About Edgar Allan Poe - the Literary Master of the Macabre Learn more about the king of Gothic Literature himself: Edgar Allen Poe.

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Author Emma Smith ponders this and more ambiguities in the Bard's work in the electrifying new study, THIS IS SHAKESPEARE.

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