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


Leído por 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)

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