Sacred Heart University - English Club

03/06/2022

‘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

01/20/2022

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

03/26/2021

03/06/2021

‘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

10/20/2020

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.

10/08/2020

Good Morning ❤️📚

08/27/2020

Learn more about the king of Gothic Literature himself: Edgar Allen Poe.

08/21/2020

07/03/2020

05/30/2020

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05/26/2020

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

Learn more here: https://bit.ly/TIShakespeare