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The Battle of Marathon

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Battle of Marathon is a rhymed, dramatic, narrative-poem by Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning). Written in 1820, when Barrett was aged 14, it retells powerfully The Battle of Marathon, during which the Athenian state defeated the much larger invading force during the first Persian invasion of Greece.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 11 children, Elizabeth Barrett...

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