Sonnets from the Portuguese

American  

noun

1. a sonnet sequence (1850) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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Example Sentences

In her “Sonnets from the Portuguese,” Elizabeth Barrett Browning writes “the soul’s Rialto hath its merchandise.”

From Washington Times

Sonnets from the Portuguese used form and meter with an ease and grace that I envied.

From Literature

Set to selections from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets From the Portuguese,” these songs are strikingly dissonant and violent — as in the first sonnet’s image of Love seizing the poet by the hair — but they generally resolve to traditional harmonies.

From Washington Post

So, AVB, with apologies to EBB, who did after all publish her poem in a collection called Sonnets from the Portuguese, how does WHL love thee?

From The Guardian

One naturally thinks of them as companion pictures to Mrs. Browning’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese.”

From Project Gutenberg