The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point and Selected Other Poems


Lu par Alan Mapstone

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in County Durham, England in 1806. From the age of 15 she suffered a series of debilitating illnesses. Her book of "Poems" published in 1844 attracted the attention of Robert Browning, leading to their courtship, marriage and elopement to Italy where she lived for the rest of her life. She died in Florence in 1861.

She was a campaigner for the abolition of slavery despite both her parents' families having financial interests in plantations in the West Indies. Her poem "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" was an attempt to make people in England and America more aware of the cruelty of slavery as it affected a young slave woman..
(Summary by Alan Mapstone) (1 hr 23 min)

Chapitres

The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point 16:45 Lu par Alan Mapstone
The Young Queen 4:51 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Victoria's Tears 3:45 Lu par Alan Mapstone
A Sabbath Morning at Sea 5:03 Lu par Alan Mapstone
To Bettine 3:50 Lu par Alan Mapstone
A Child's Grave at Florence 8:19 Lu par Alan Mapstone
The Sea-Mew 3:21 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Cowper's Grave 6:28 Lu par Alan Mapstone
To Flush, my Dog 6:37 Lu par Alan Mapstone
SONNETS: On a Portrait of Wordsworth 1:38 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Flush or Faunus 1:33 Lu par Alan Mapstone
To George Sand - A Desire 1:38 Lu par Alan Mapstone
To George Sand - A Recognition 1:34 Lu par Alan Mapstone
The Prisoner 1:35 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Mountaineer and Poet 1:30 Lu par Alan Mapstone
The Poet 1:28 Lu par Alan Mapstone
PARAPHRASES: Marriage of Psyche and Cupid (on Apuleius) 3:00 Lu par Alan Mapstone
The Daughters of Pandarus (on Homer) 3:25 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Ode to the Swallow (on Anacreon) 1:34 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Paraphrases on Heine 5:42 Lu par Alan Mapstone