Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Born in 1806 in County Durham, England, Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett was the eldest of 11 surviving children. Although, like most young girls of the time, she had no formal schooling, she shared a...

Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert...

The title of this essay should be read in two ways: as both Victorian and contemporary critics have acknowledged, both Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) and George Meredith's Modern Love (1862) has a powerful emotional effect on readers. This emotional...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was able to conflate and destabilize certain tropes characteristic of Elizabethan amatory lyric in her 'Sonnets from the Portoguese 37.' Through the sonnet, which has wreck and rescue as its subject, Browning found a way not only to incorporate novelty as...

A comparative study of John Clare's "I Am" with Elizabeth Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese XLII." As sonnets, both poems feature strict construction and are both about childhood.