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| Day 14 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning  | The poems Elizabeth Barrett wrote to her husband Robert Browning during their courtship weren’t published until much later as Sonnets from the Portuguese (he called her “my little Portugese”), and they have long been the best-known love poems written in English, including that most famous line, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” | | Sonnet 43 - "How do I love thee?"
This is probably the best known sonnet in the English language. Strange to think that Elizabeth didn’t want to publish the Sonnets from the Portuguese because she felt they were private poems, but Robert Browning urged her to share them with the public. It is thought she titled them as she did to pretend they were translations of foreign sonnets.
| For further reading: Profile of E.B. Browning
Her childhood and education, her publication and illness, her father and slavery, her brother’s death by the sea, her great love affair with Robert Browning and Sonnets from the Portuguese, the Brownings in Florence....
| Library: Poems by E.B. Browning
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