1940 Rare Book - Sonnets From the Portuguese, love sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Title: Sonnets From the Portuguese.
Publisher: Mount Vernon, NY, Peter Pauper Press, no date (1940).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: 44 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good half polished red calf leather and decorative floral paper to covers with gilt line edging (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. Upper edge gilt.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing - as shown).
The book: Beautiful edition of the Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and published first in 1850, -- a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular during the poet's lifetime and it remains so. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was initially hesitant to publish the poems, believing they were too personal. However, her husband Robert Browning insisted they were the best sequence of English-language sonnets since Shakespeare's time and urged her to publish them. To offer the couple some privacy, she decided to publish them as if they were translations of foreign sonnets. She initially planned to title the collection "Sonnets translated from the Bosnian", but Browning proposed that she claim their source was Portuguese, probably because of her admiration for Camões and Robert's nickname for her: "my little Portuguese". The title is also a reference to Les Lettres Portugaises (1669).
The author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.
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