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Sonnets From the Portuguese and Other Poems
Sonnets From the Portuguese and Other Poems Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browing "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett," Robert Browning wrote in his first letter to Elizabeth Barrett, after he read her 1844 volume of poems. Letters gave way to visits, and the literary friendship blossomed into one of the world's most famous courtships. It was during this courtship that Elizabeth Barrett, in ... more »her invalid's bedroom on Wimpole Street, composed most of the love lyrics in her celebrated sonnet sequence, SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE. She didn't show them to Robert Browning until several months after their elopement, when one day she suddenly thrust the manuscript into his hand. Browning persuaded her....to include them in her 1850 POEMS.« less