Sonnets from the Portuguese
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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 • Oct. 13, 2012
Sonnets from the Portuguese used form and meter with an ease and grace that I envied.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
In such a sequence as "Monna Innominata," there is not a trace of the luscious and labyrinthine ecstacies of her brother's work; they are indeed far more like Mrs. Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese.
From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
Of the poems published after her marriage, however, none are more exquisite than the series of Sonnets from the Portuguese.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
They were accordingly published in 1850, under the intentionally mystifying title, Sonnets from the Portuguese.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra
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