Sonnets from the Portuguese

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Sonnets from the Portuguese is a celebrated 19th-century sonnet sequence of intimate love poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, renowned for its lyrical expression of romantic devotion.

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instanceOf love poetry
poetry collection
sonnet sequence
addressee Robert Browning
author Elizabeth Barrett Browning
canonicalStatus classic of English literature
compositionEndYear 1846
compositionStartYear 1845
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReception highly acclaimed
firstPublicationDate 1850
firstPublishedIn Poems (1850)
form sonnet
genre love poetry
lyric poetry
hasFamousLine How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
hasTheme conflict between love and duty
personal transformation
religious faith
transcendence of love
includedIn Poems (1850)
influenceOn English love poetry tradition
initialIntendedAudience Robert Browning
inspiredBy Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning courtship
language English
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
meter iambic pentameter
mostFamousSonnet How do I love thee? (Sonnet 43)
surface form: Sonnet 43
movement Victorian literature
surface form: Victorian poetry
notablePoem How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
numberOfPoems 44
originallyConceivedAs private poems
originalPublisher Chapman and Hall
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
publicationCentury 19th century
rhymeSchemeType Petrarchan sonnet
studiedIn Victorian literature courses
subject devotion
female authorship
illness
marriage
romantic love
self-doubt
spiritual love
titleAlludesTo Luís de Camões
surface form: Camões’ Portuguese sonnets

Portuguese as affectionate nickname
Robert Browning’s nickname for Elizabeth Barrett Browning
titleGivenBy Robert Browning
writtenDuring Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning courtship

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning notableWork Sonnets from the Portuguese
Browning isNotableFor Sonnets from the Portuguese
subject surface form: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth notableWork Sonnets from the Portuguese
subject surface form: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth hasPart Sonnets from the Portuguese
subject surface form: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
this entity surface form: poetry collection "Sonnets from the Portuguese"
How do I love thee? (Sonnet 43) collection Sonnets from the Portuguese