Sonnets from the Portuguese (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-(Sonnets from the Portuguese) is a collection of love poems by the English writer Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), published within the 1850 anthology: Poems (Poems). The Portuguese Sonnets cycle was written between 1845 and 1846, and consists of 44 magnificent sonnets, probably the best love poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It is said that, at the beginning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was reluctant to publish the collection, considering it too personal. However, her husband, the poet Robert Browning, insisted that it was the best English poetic cycle since William Shakespeare's sonnets, and finally convinced her to publish it. All the poems of Sonnets of Portuguese reflect the sentimental relationship between Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.To soften the intimate character of the work, and especially to hide their identities as main sources of the poems, the author decided to give her an ambiguous title, as if they were actually translations of Portuguese sonnets. The book was finally titled: Sonnets from the Portuguese. The play was effective, since for many years it was thought that those love sonnets had really been translated from Portuguese.