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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, cited for her poetry and sonnets.

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Also known as Browning

First appearance: lecture iii children s reading i

Elizabeth Barrett Browning shows up with force in Lecture I: Introductory. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Her poem 'A Death in the Desert' is quoted to introduce the doctrine of the three souls: What Does, What Knows, What Is.
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