Elizabeth Barrett Browning As A Poet of Love

Abstract

Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a popular and prestigious poetess of love. Her poems, chiefly the Sonnets from the Portuguese are remarkable for an artisitic impression of her intensity of passion and rapture of love. She produced the best part of her poetry under the influence of this powerful emotion of love. no finer and fuller statement of a woman’s passion of love from the feminist point of view exists in English literature. Her love letters and love sonnets serve as the monuments and memoirs of love as well as a rare literary treasure. They played a significant role not only in her personal life but also in her poetic career. The Sonnets from the Portuguese, published in 1850, were written during the period of her love affair with Robert Browning (1845-46). The love letters were also written during the same period.