95 The Runaway Poets – The Triumphant Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) was one of the most prolific and accomplished poets of the Victorian age, an inspiration to Emily Dickensen, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, and countless others. And yet, her life was full of cloistered misery, as her father insisted that she should never marry. And then, the clouds lifted, and a letter arrived. It was from the poet Robert Browning (1812-1889), admiring her from afar, declaring his love. How did these two poets find each other? What kind of life did they share afterwards? And what dark secrets had led to her father’s restrictions…and how might that have affected his daughter’s poetry? Host Jacke Wilson takes a look at the story of the Brownings. Music Credits: “Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive / CC by SA). “Monkeys Spinning Monkeys” and “Piano Between” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:11.0	Welcome to The History of Literature. Okay, let's get started. We have a wonderful episode today, a wonderful topic with two incredible poets and the way they found one another and why they needed to find one another.
0:42.1	And there's a surprise ending.
0:44.7	A surprise ending.
0:46.3	Well, I can't tell you much more about that because within
0:49.6	what would be the surprise?
0:51.3	I'd ruin it. So we're still going ad free and the money in the coffers is
0:56.3	new and ling. We're down to a quarter, four pennies, a few pieces of lint, but that's okay.
1:02.1	We're happy to go commando as my producer
1:06.5	says that's for you the listener trying to improve your listening
1:11.1	experience you're welcome. So the story of the Brownings. I knew much of this but not all of it and people let me just tell you that there's a surprise ending that I've said too much already.
1:23.0	If you're like me, you will come away from this with a due respect for both Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.
1:31.0	He had a child too. Penn Browning. He had a child too.
1:33.0	Pen Browning.
1:35.0	Is that perfect?
1:37.0	Or is that weird?
1:38.0	Yes, they were poets.
1:40.0	Yes, they were in love and yes, the pen is an important implement.
1:45.0	The pen, Browning, isn't that kind of something you might name a pet?
1:50.0	Isn't that how you'd name a pet?
1:52.0	Name them after? Is it that how you'd name a pet?
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