The first volume to achieve any real success was The Seraphim though the somewhat anti-British Poems Before Congress proved controversial as did the emancipation tome, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point.  
Early works by this author include a translation of Prometheus Bound, an account of The Battle of Marathon as well as an Essay on Mind in verse.  An early critic was William Thackeray who rejected one submission as containing "an account of unlawful passion."  The first volume to achieve any real success was The Seraphim though the somewhat anti-British Poems Before Congress proved controversial as did the emancipation tome, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point.  Advocating Italian independence in Casa Guidi Windows, she also wrote the verse novel, Aurora Leigh.  FTP, name this author of Sonnets from the Portugese whose Last Poems was published posthumously by her husband, Robert.
Early works by this author include a translation of Prometheus Bound, an account of The Battle of Marathon as well as an Essay on Mind in verse.  
Elizabeth Barrett Browning