Question

In a poem by this author, the title group dismisses God as being “speechless as a stone” and says that all they find in Heaven are “Dark, wheel-like, turning clouds.” A girl named Alice is buried in a snowball-shaped grave in that poem by this author. At the beginning of a different poem by this woman, the narrator hears a child singing, “O bella libertà, (15[1])o bella!” underneath her high vantage point near a (*) Tuscan church. This author protested (10[1])child labor (10[1])with her poem “The Cry of the Children.” This woman set her long poem Casa Guidi Windows (10[1])in a Florentine mansion where she moved with her husband, who was the dedicatee of a poem that asks, “How do I love thee? (10[2]) let me count the ways.” For 10 points, name this author of Sonnets from the Portuguese. ■END■

ANSWER: Elizabeth Barrett Browning [accept either underlined portion]
<Darren Petrosino, British Literature>
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