Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Sonnets from the Portuguese

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Narrator: Emma Topping

Unabridged: 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/10/2010

Synopsis

The highly accaimed collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning written in the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. Read by Emma Topping and Katharine Cornell

About Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) is generally considered the greatest of English poetesses. She was well educated for a woman of her time at home, being confined to bed by a lung complaint, possibly tuberculosis. The appearance of her Poems in 1844 attracted the attention of Robert Browning, who courted her in secret before eloping with her to Italy. There Elizabeth’s health improved and she threw herself into politics, becoming a pioneer of early liberal movements.

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Goodreads review by Sreena

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace." The above verses are from sonnet 43, one of the most famous sonnets from the collection and also my personal favorite. Which em......more

Goodreads review by Daisy

Some great love affairs of the past produced great works of art, Keat’s letters to Fanny Brawne, the Taj Mahal, Kahlo’s The Embrace of the Love of the Universe and these sonnets written from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to her beloved Robert. ”If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for l......more

Goodreads review by persephone ☾

The face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul when is it my turn to be happy ? 😭......more

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