Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Date: 1850
Genre: Poetry
Country: UK
A collection of 44 love poems. 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.