She has Spiritual influence
Religious themes are present in a lot of Barrett Browning's works. She had read and studied books like Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost. In her poetry, she claims: "We want our poets to feel the saturation of Christ's blood upon their souls, that it would weep through them in response to the Sphinx of our humanity's never-ending cries, expressing anguish into renewal. When its greatness was at its height, some of this was seen in the arts. Greek Christian poets can be observed to have a certain amount of a craving for this, which would have been considerably stronger with a stronger faculty ". She held the opinion that "Christ's religion is basically poetry, but glorified poetry." In numerous poems, she examined the religious theme, especially in her early work, such as the sonnets.
She had studied Hebrew, read the Hebrew Bible, and was interested in theological discussion. For instance, she makes references to the end of the world and uses religious imagery in her famous novel Aurora Leigh. Cynthia Scheinberg, a critic, points out that female figures in Aurora Leigh's previous work "The Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus" make reference to Miriam, Moses's sister and nurse. In order to uphold the cultural expectations of a Christian lady poet of the Victorian era, Barrett Browning herself drew on Jewish history while separating herself from it, as evidenced by her allusions to Miriam in both poems. Barrett Browning defines herself as a Congregationalist in the communication she had on predestination and salvation by works with the Reverend William Merry from 1843 to 1844: "I am not a Baptist — but a Congregational Christian, — in the holding of my private opinions."
