by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Running Press Miniature Editions · tapa dura · ISBN 9780894717185
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«Sonnets from the Portuguese» is a poetry collection by Elizabeth Barrett Browning published by Running Press Miniature Editions in hardcover (102 pages, in English).
The sonnets in this book were written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning during her courtship with Robert Browning and deal with love, respect and hope in an intimate, confessional tone. The author did not intend to publish them; Robert convinced her, and the title alludes to the affectionate nickname he gave her.
English edition published in 1989 as part of the Running Press Miniature Editions collection, miniature size; the original work was published in 1850.
Lovers of romantic poetry and collectors of miniature books.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.
