Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

During their friendship Barrett studied Greek literature including Homer Pindar and Aristophanes. Barrett Browning. This illness caused her to be frail and weak.

A collection of her last poems was publiElizabeth Barrett Browningd by her husband Robert Browning shortly after her death. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime.