Sonnet XXIX Summary
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet XXIX Summary

Many poems have been written about love: its nature, its causes, its effects, its beginnings, its endings— but Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese is unique in the history of English literature for the means by which the sonnets were eventually published for all the world to read. According to Margaret Foster's biography Elizabeth Barrett Browning, three years after her 1846 marriage to fellow poet Robert Browning, Barrett Browning was listening to her...

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