Excerpt from Selected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Edited With Introduction and Notes

I have endeavored to show in my introduction, Mrs. Browning has done some things that no other poet has done, and has said others that no other poet has said. And, further, at a time when women are daily playing a more important part in the world's history, it may not be wholly useless for young people of both sexes to know what a woman, whose mind and heart were equally developed, thought about the great questions of human life.

The business of the teacher of literature is not solely to fill the student's mind with facts and what is generally called useful knowledge; he must also aim at cultivating the student's imagination, at developing his thinking faculty, and at demonstrating the lasting pleasure afforded by the habit of reading the works of great writers with intelligence and sympathy. I trust that he will find in this little volume good material on which to work in that direction.

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