Elizabeth Barrett Browning



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This well-known excerpt, read by an actor, comes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s collection, Sonnets From the Portuguese (1850). Browning based the sonnets on her love for her husband, the poet Robert Browning, and presented the collection to him as a gift. A 19th-century English poet, Elizabeth Browning wrote poems dedicated to humanitarian themes, love, religion, and Italy, the country in which she spent the last 15 years of her life.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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