Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Language: English

Publisher: Standard Ebooks

Published: Dec 2, 2017

Collection: Drama and Poetry
Reading Ease: 82.75
Page Count: 25
Topic: Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Word Count: 5820

Description:

A collection of 44 love sonnets.

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Sonnets from the Portuguese is a collection of forty-four love sonnets. Despite what the title suggests, Browning in fact composed the sonnets in English. She decided to frame them as “translations” because she was concerned they may have been too personal to publish. Fortunately her husband, Robert Browning, convinced her to publish them, and they went on to become some of the most famous and critically-acclaimed love sonnets to this day.