![]() Moreover, Elizabeth may have had Creole ancestry, so the nickname seemed apt. It is derived from one of Elizabeth's earlier poems, Catarina to Camoens, which depicts a Portuguese woman's love for a poet. My little Portuguese was Robert's pet name for Elizabeth. The title of the collection, Sonnets from the Portuguese, is likely to puzzle some readers. Many modern readers are likely to recognize the opening line of Sonnet 43, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, which stands next to Shakespeare's To be or not to be in Hamlet as arguably one of the most widely recognized lines in English literature. ![]() The collection survives as one of the most highly regarded sonnet sequences in English and the work on which Browning's reputation rests in the twenty-first century. The poems record the early days of their relationship and Elizabeth's initial reluctance to marry Robert because of her father's opposition to her marriage and because of her poor health. Sonnets from the Portuguese consists of forty-four love poems that Browning wrote during her courtship with the poet Robert Browning, although she did not share the poems with him until the late 1840s, after their elopement to Italy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sonnet 43, by British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is one poem in a sequence of sonnets Browning published under the title Sonnets from the Portuguese in 1850 the sonnet sequence, in turn, was included in a two-volume collection titled Poems: New Edition. ![]()
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