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Sonnets from the Portuguese
Nonfiction e-Book-of-the-Month, February 2002. "I LOVE YOUR VERSE with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett...and I love you too." Thus wrote Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett in January 1845, sparking one of the most celebrated literary exchanges of any century. Over the following year, the two exchanged letters and intimations of passion, among them a series of forty-four interlocking poems that Elizabeth composed to Robert. Elizabeth had written these sonnets in confidence, as a secret gift to Robert, but soon after he persuaded her to collect and publish them. Sonnets from the Portuguese, named for the lovers Camoens and Caterina of Portuguese lore, was the culmination of this outpouring of literary passion. "How do I love thee...let me count the ways." The literature of the world has often celebrated devotion, but few writers have ever been able to express its wonder and discovery in the way that Elizabeth Barrett Browning has in her magnificent collection.
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