Sonnets from the Portuguese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Overview

First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets From The Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking poems that Elizabeth Barrett Browning composed for her husband, Robert Browning. This wonderful illustrated edition includes 22 additional works as well.

B & W illustrations throughout

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775415657
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	06/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	153 KB

About the Author

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was an English poet. The daughter of a wealthy family—her father made his fortune as a slave owner in Jamaica, while her mother’s family owned and operated sugar plantations, mills, and ships—Browning eventually became an abolitionist and advocate for child labor laws. Her marriage to the prominent Victorian poet Robert Browning caused the final break between Browning and her family, after which she moved to Italy and lived there with Robert for the rest of her life. She began writing poems at a young age, finding success with the 1844 publication of Poems. Browning went on to be recognized as one of the foremost poets of early Victorian England, influencing such writers as Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson. She is most famous for her Sonnets from the Portuguese, a collection of 44 love poems published in 1850, and Aurora Leigh, an 1856 epic poem described by leading Victorian critic John Ruskin as the greatest long poem written in the nineteenth century. Browning suffered from numerous illnesses throughout her life, eventually succumbing in Florence at the age of 55.

Table of Contents

From The Seraphim and other Poems (1838)
  The Sleep
  A Sea-Side Walk
  Consolation
 
From Poems (1844)
  Grief
  Cheerfulness Taught by Reason
  To George Sand: A Desire
  To George Sand: A Recognition
  The Cry of the Children (1843)
  To Flush, My Dog (1843)
  The Cry of the Human (1842)
 
From Poems (1850)
  Two Sketches [Henrietta and Arabella Barrett, the poet's sisters] (1847)
  Hiriam Powers' 'Greek Slave'
  A Woman's Shortcomings (1846)
  Life and Love
 
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
 
From Poems before Congress (1860)
  A Curse for a Nation
 
From Last Poems (1862)
  A False Step
  Amy's Cruelty
  A Musical Instrument (1860)
  The Forced Recruit (1860)
 
Alphabetical List of Titles
Alphabetical List of First Lines

Editorial Reviews

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…" Elizabeth Barrett Browning penned some of the most famous and passionate lovepoems ever written, collected here in a magnificent gift edition.

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