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Robert Browning

The most sensational episode in Robert Browning's life was his elopement with Elizabeth Barrett, a piece of history made perhaps all too familiar in the popular play called The Barretts of Wimpole

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Home-Thoughts, from Abroad

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What American poet spent twelve years in St. Elizabeths Hospital, a federally-run psychiatric hospital?

Answer

Ezra Pound.

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