Sonnets From the Portuguese
{{Sonnets From the Portuguese}}
Basic Info
- Author: Elizabeth Bishop Browning
- Year: 1850
- Type: #primary1
Summary (brief)
-44 Victorian love poems that chronicle her private, emotional, and physical transformation from a reclusive "invalid" into a woman in love. During her courtship with Robert Browning, the sonnets utilize a traditional Italian format to explore deep personal themes of love's restorative power and eternal, spiritual connection.
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quote:: “Because thou has the power and own'st the grace / To look through and behind this mask of me, / (Against which, years have beat thus blanchingly, / With their rains,) and behold my soul's true face.”
page:: 19
themes:: interiority
Genre Notes
-Turns Petrarchan sonnet into a raw, autobiographical account
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