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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 29 (Sonnets from the Portugese)"
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 29 (Sonnets from the Portugese)"
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 29 (Sonnets from the Portugese)"
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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 29 (Sonnets from the Portugese)"

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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 29 (Sonnets from the Portugese)," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535833745
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 29 (Sonnets from the Portugese)"

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      A Study Guide for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 29 (Sonnets from the Portugese)" - Gale

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      Sonnet XXIX

      Elizabeth Barrett Browning

      1850

      Introduction

      Many poems have been written about love: its nature, its causes, its effects, its beginnings, its endings—but Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese is unique in the history of English literature for the means by which the sonnets were eventually published for all the world to read. According to Margaret Foster’s biography Elizabeth Barrett Browning, three years after her 1846 marriage to fellow poet Robert Browning, Barrett Browning was listening to her husband rail against personal poetry which, presumably, could not handle the greater and more complex themes that he felt poetry should. She then surprised her husband with the question, "Do you know I once wrote some sonnets about you?" and then showed him the forty-four sonnets she had composed during their courtship. Astounded by their beauty and power, Browning insisted that they be published, and in 1850, Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese was read by countless more people than the sonnets’ originally intended audience of

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