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Excerpt from Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth barrett browning richly deserves a place in a group of poets who gave expression through their divine art to Christian teaching. She was essentially a religious poet; the spirit of te ligion pervades and irradiates every page she wrote. But it was not any monastic ideal, any spirit of worship in selfish seclusion, that she set forth. Her real spirit lived in the world; she was part of the very current and passion of it, and she trans muted the humblest elements of life as she knew it into heavenly radiances. Still there was sometimes the ecstasy of the devotee in her hours of inspira tion, and the rapture of the seer of visions. She lived with visions for her company, she says in one of the Sonnets from the Portuguese, and they were gentle mates to her; she would not ask for sweeter music than they made. Nor would we! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Hardcover, Label: Forgotten Books, Forgotten Books, Product group: Book, Published: 2018-03-18, Studio: Forgotten Books.