"Sonnets from the Portuguese" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a series of love poems from the Victorian age that expresses deep and complicated romantic feelings. Penned in the 1800s, the collection captures Browning's strong feelings for her husband, Robert Browning, blending personal and widespread themes of love, longing, and loyalty. The sonnets show Browning's emotional experiences, revealing both her weakness and strength through powerful pictures and moving thoughts. The poems also show her struggles to reconcile love and fear, her desire for a meaningful connection with another person, and her emotional recovery from past hurts. The main subjects of the collection are the poet and the person she loves, moving through the subtleties of their relationship. The series builds up to a point of deep devotion, ending with the famous poem "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways," which beautifully describes the depth of her love.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Experience a poet's heart poured out in verses celebrating a love that conquers doubt and transforms sorrow into a song of eternal devotion.
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About the AuthorElizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.
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