Love Poems and Sonnets from the Portuguese , Elizabeth Barrett Browning Dodge Publishing Co New York,Copyright 1903
Love Poems and 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Published by Dodge Publishing Co;New York, 1903
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets to the Portuguese are widely considered among the greatest cycle of sonnets in the English language. This collection of love poems was written between 1845-46 to fellow poet and her soon-to-be husband, Robert Browning.
Originally, Browning had no intention of publishing the poetry owing to its deeply personal subject matter, but her husband convinced her to publish them in the 1850 edition of her Poems. Originally, however, she was reportedly to have called the collection Sonnets from the Bosnian but was convinced to change the title to Sonnets from the Portuguese, also on her husband's suggestion.
This enlarged edition of Browning's Poems is rightly considered an entirely separate work from the 1844 first edition. It includes, in addition to the Sonnets from the Portuguese, a number of poems here printed or collected for the first time.
The strange courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, morally chained to a monstrous father, and their subsequent elopement, is one of the most romantic stories in 19th-century literature.
What Browning did not know is that while Elizabeth was lying on that famous sofa in her father's house on Wimpole Street she was pouring out her heart in some of the most remarkable love poetry ever written by a woman. One morning some time later, when they were living in Pisa, Elizabeth Browning pushed a packet under her husband's arm, asked him to read the sonnets it contained and, should he disapprove, destroy them. Then she rushed from the room. Browning sat there and read with ever-growing wonder. Even before he had finished he hurried to his wife and demanded their publication. To shelter her feelings it was pretended that the sonnets had been translated from the Portuguese"
This rare copy contains 117 pages with no rips, tears, foxing or staining. It was published in 1903 but not marked.
It is a hardcover and is in very good condition. No dust jacket. The cover is a pale lavender vertical rib-grain cloth over boards with stamped white and gilt cover designs and gilt stamped spine lettering; end papers decorated with purple vine and floral design on each page.
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