![]() ![]() Print length 108 pages Language English Publication date JanuDimensions 5.5 x 0.27 x 8. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her marriage to Robert Browning. It really doesn't hold up under a feminist reading-"I feel I shall stand / henceforward in they shadow"-but the overall point of the poem, that no aspect of her life will be untouched by her lover going forward, is beautifully expressed: "What I do / and what I dream include the, as the wine / must taste of its own grapes." If it weren't for that last religious line, I might go for this one for the wedding. Sonnets from the Portuguese, first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I also, to my surprise, very much liked sonnet 6. But again, I find the touch of melancholy and the knowledge that it was so successfully overcome particularly apt in our case. Yes, I did find myself loving over-quoted sonnet number 14, and we may even read it at our wedding (nothing's settled). I appreciated the slow progression of the poems from disbelief to love, with all the confused and delightful nuances in between. While I don't know Barrett Browning's whole story, I do find what I know to be quite meaningful to me. ![]() No time for proper reviews right now, as I'm at the end of my last class of grad school and I have a huge pile of short books I've snuck in since February that I need to rate. ![]()
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