The narrator of a poem by this author described breaking “the copious curls upon my head” because her aunt “liked smooth-order hair.” In a different poem by this author, the speaker encourages the addressee to “Gather the north flowers to complete the south / And catch the early love up in the late.” In a long poem by this author, Marian Erle has a child out of wedlock and refuses to marry Romney, who proposes to the title character instead. Virginia Woolf wrote about this author’s cocker spaniel getting kidnapped in the fictional biography Flush. This author wrote “call me by my pet name” in a collection in which a different poem begins, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” For 10 points, name this poet who wrote the nine-book “novel in verse” Aurora Leigh and Sonnets from the Portuguese. ■END■
ANSWER: Elizabeth Barrett Browning [or Elizabeth Barrett Browning; accept Elizabeth Barrett; prompt on Browning; reject “Robert Browning”]
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