The Brownings
Roger McGough is joined by Professor Daniel Karlin to talk about the power couple of British poetry, Robert and Elizabeth Browning. Poems include the classics 'How Do I Love Thee?' and 'Home Thoughts from Abroad'. With an appearance by Sir David Attenborough.
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This Week's Poems
Sonnet 43 – ‘How do I love thee’
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Published by The Wordsworth Poetry Library
Home Thoughts, From Abroad
By Robert Browning
From Browning – Poems Selected by W.E. Williams
Published by Penguin
Extract from Aurora Leigh Book Nine
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Published by The Wordsworth Poetry Library
Out in the Fields With God
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From A Second Treasury of the Familiar
Published by Macmillan
Past and Future
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Selected Poems
Published by Chatto & Windus
Songs from the Portuguese: Sonnet no 42
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Published by The Wordsworth Poetry Library
My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning
From Browning – Poems Selected by W.E. Williams
Published by Penguin
To Edward Fitzgerald
By Robert Browning
From The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 5th ed. Vol. 2
Published by W.W. Norton
Prospice
By Robert Browning
From Browning – Poems Selected by W.E. Williams
Published by Penguin
Credit
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
Broadcasts
- Sun 5 Oct 201416:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 11 Oct 201423:30BBC Radio 4
