Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jul 10, 2023
Follow her passionate, gothic journey through love and death. Download the complete album at: http://davidarvbragi.bandcamp.com/alb... Thank you for listening!
"Sonnets from the Portuguese" is a collection of forty-four beloved love poems by the celebrated early Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Published in 1850, they largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to the poet Robert Browning. Intertwining complex thoughts of romantic and religious passion, they express the journey of troubled soul who finds personal redemption in the joys of love. The collection was acclaimed and popular in the poet's lifetime and remains so today.