Sonnets from the Portuguese

Name: Sonnets from the Portuguese
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
ISBN: 9781911495208

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 28 pages
ISBN: 9781911495208
Published: 17 June 2016
Imprint: Egoist Press

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
poetry
immortality
death
life
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romance
love
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Description

Elizabeth was initially hesitant to publish the poems, believing they were too personal. However, her husband insisted they were the best sequence of English-language sonnets since Shakespeare's time and urged her to publish them. To offer the couple some privacy, she decided to publish them as if they were translations of foreign sonnets.

Author

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States. Elizabeth's work had a major influence on prominent writers of the day, including the American poets Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English.

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