Confined to her room in the country or city home of her father in England, Elizabeth Barrett developed ... in those exquisite sonnets purporting to be from the Portuguese, the author being too ...

Today, March 6, is the 210th birthday of Elizabeth Barrett ... 1846 marriage to Robert Browning is worth remembering on her birthday. As she wrote in Sonnets from the Portuguese, she saw their ...

Those lines by Elizabeth ... by Robert Browning, and among the most famous in all of poetry, open one of 44 of her love poems that are collectively known as Sonnets From the Portuguese.

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43, from Sonnets from the Portuguese) "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

the haunting “Sonnets From the Portuguese.” Sampson does not slight Robert Browning. We hear about Elizabeth Barrett’s unlikely love affair with the younger and much less celebrated poet ...

What does the name Elizabeth Barrett Browning evoke for you? For me, it’s the battered high school desk in which, on my very first day of Big School, I found an abandoned poetry book.

"My first acquaintance," she writes in 1851, "with ELIZABETH BARRETT, commenced about ... In one of the Sonnets from the Portuguese, she says, with strict autobiographic truth: "I lived with ...