Elizabeth Barrett Browning, née le 6 mars 1806 à Coxhoe Hall, dans le comté de Durham, et morte le 29 juin 1861 à Florence, est une poétesse, essayiste et pamphlétaire anglaise de l’ère victorienne. ( wikipédia)
Aurora Leigh (1856)
« Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in my father’s name;
Piled high, packed large, – where, creeping in and out
Among the giant fossils of my past,
Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box, pulling through the gap,
In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,
The first book first. And how I felt it beat
Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark,
An hour before the sun would let me read! »
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