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Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Sep 13, 2021 • 19m

In all literary history there is no happier love story than that of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. During their secret courtship Miss Barrett sent Browning many beautiful love letters written in verse. (Volume 41, Harvard Classics)

Browning married Elizabeth Barrett, Sept. 12, 1846.

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