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Sonnets from the Portuguese

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Cover: Beata Beatrix (c. 1864-1870), oil on canvas by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1882)

Forty-four sonnets in which Elizabeth Barrett Browning traces her love for Robert Browning, from her first doubt that she can be loved to the full surrender of the last poems. The 'Portuguese' of the title was a private joke, and the sequence became the best known love poetry of the Victorian age.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: I
  2. 2: II
  3. 3: III
  4. 4: IV
  5. 5: V
  6. 6: VI
  7. 7: VII
  8. 8: VIII
  9. 9: IX
  10. 10: X
  11. 11: XI
  12. 12: XII
  13. 13: XIII
  14. 14: XIV
  15. 15: XV
  16. 16: XVI
  17. 17: XVII
  18. 18: XVIII
  19. 19: XIX
  20. 20: XX
  21. 21: XXI
  22. 22: XXII
  23. 23: XXIII
  24. 24: XXIV
  25. 25: XXV
  26. 26: XXVI
  27. 27: XXVII
  28. 28: XXVIII
  29. 29: XXIX
  30. 30: XXX
  31. 31: XXXI
  32. 32: XXXII
  33. 33: XXXIII
  34. 34: XXXIV
  35. 35: XXXV
  36. 36: XXXVI
  37. 37: XXXVII
  38. 38: XXXVIII
  39. 39: XXXIX
  40. 40: XL
  41. 41: XLI
  42. 42: XLII
  43. 43: XLIII
  44. 44: XLIV