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§10. "Sonnets from the Portuguese". III. Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Vol. 13. The Victorian ... |
 | | The Battle of Marathon, Elizabeth Barretts juvenile poem, was followed, in 1826, by An Essay on Mind and Other Poems, a volume which bears in the very title the stamp of Pope, though its authoress, then and always, was quite unqualified to imitate his terse neatness. |
 | | Then, in 1833, came Prometheus Bound, a translation from Aeschylus, with which the translator herself came to be so thoroughly dissatisfied that she suppressed it, so far as she was able, and substituted for it a second translation, which was published in 1850, in the same volume as Sonnets from the Portuguese. |
 | | Notwithstanding the transformation which her marriage was said to have wrought, Elizabeth Brownings health was never completely restored, or secureI have never seen a human frame so nearly a transparent veil for a celestial and immortal spirit, said Hillard of her, when he saw her in Florence. |
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