Who wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese?

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Who wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese?

These sonnets were written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She composed this sequence in the 1840s, during her courtship with Robert Browning, and it was published in 1850. The collection is famous for its opening line “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,” and its title nods to the Petrarchan tradition, though the poems are Browning’s original work rather than translations. The other writers listed—Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and George Eliot—are known for different works, and none of them authored Sonnets from the Portuguese.

These sonnets were written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She composed this sequence in the 1840s, during her courtship with Robert Browning, and it was published in 1850. The collection is famous for its opening line “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,” and its title nods to the Petrarchan tradition, though the poems are Browning’s original work rather than translations. The other writers listed—Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and George Eliot—are known for different works, and none of them authored Sonnets from the Portuguese.

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