"I love your verse with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett...and I love you too," Robert Browning wrote in January of 1845, thus initiating the most celebrated literary correspondence of the nineteenth century. For the next twenty months, he and the world-renowned poet Elizabeth Barrett exchanged letters and confidences.
During their courtship, Elizabeth privately wrote a series of forty-four sonnets to Robert. Later, the sonnets were collected and called Sonnets from the Portuguese, after the folktale lovers Caterina and Camoens, who loved from afar. This new edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese presents the poems in an entirely new context. The large page size allows the sonnets the stature they deserve, and each poem is accompanied on the facing page with relevant excerpts from the love letters.
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Sonnets from the Portuguese: a celebration of love
1986, St. Martin's Press
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
031274501X 9780312745011
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
1980, Avenel Books ; distributed by Crown Publishers
in English
- Avenel 1980 ed.
0517309823 9780517309827
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Sonnets from the Portuguese: the most treasured poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
1967, Hallmark Editions
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