English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1319 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sonnets From the Portuguese
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The idea
Sonnets from the Portuguese, published in eighteen fifty, are forty-four love sonnets recording her courtship by Browning. The most famous begins, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." The anchor notes she takes on the most male-dominated of poetic forms.
In practice
Forty-four sonnets of courtship.
Where people slip
A woman claims the sonnet sequence.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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