This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sonnets from the Portuguese Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning suffered from numerous illnesses throughout her life, eventually succumbing in Florence at the age of 55. 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 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. Throughout the sequence, Barrett Browning creates a speaker who develops. With this 44-sonnet sequence, Barrett Browning puts on display her mastery of the Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet form. She began writing poems at a young age, finding success with the 1844 publication of Poems. Since its publication, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese has become a beloved, often anthologized, and widely studied sonnet sequence. 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. 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. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was an English poet.
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