Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
and Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) were
both regarded as the female poet
laureates of their time, and between
them their writings spanned almost the
entire Victorian age, from the end of
Romanticism to the beginnings of
Modernism. This selection of their shorter
works contains all the major themes that
animated them – social justice, faith, love
and mortality - and some of the bestloved
poetry in English, including In The
Deep Midwinter and How Do I Love Thee?
These poems reflect the changing world in
which they were composed, but they also
reflect the complex passions of two
extraordinary women.