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Sonnets in Honour of God and His Saints_, and Donne's _Holy Sonnets_, all made before 1600, the symbolic theme was added to the conventions of the sonnet-realm, the scope of its content was broadened; and the sonnet was well on its way toward a time when it could be named a trumpet, upon which a mighty voice could blow soul-animating strains.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia Thomas Lodge 1889
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[344] See the Sonnets translated in my Appendix and in my _Sonnets of
Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866
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Barrett Browning is, in fact, best known for a sequence of poems that plays out her love for Robert, which she entitled Sonnets from the Portuguese.
John Lundberg: A Woman Who Broke Poetry's Glass Ceiling 2008
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The probe will carry an Edison record containing the songs of birds and whales, as well as a small volume of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese.
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Yes -- I still have my parents 'once beautiful edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese, designed and illustrated by Valenti Angelo, ruined forever by the "date-due" pad I drew on the front endpapers.
My best friend Roger Sutton 2008
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Life in Italy with Robert Browning brought her renewed health, a child, and gave the world one of the most beautiful collections of love poems ever written, Sonnets from the Portuguese.
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In "Sonnet 18" from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, the speaker dramatizes the simple act of giving a lock of her to her lover.
Archive 2009-11-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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The speaker in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 8" from Sonnets from the Portuguese once again finds herself baffled with the attention she receives from one who is so much above her station in life.
Great Regulars: The speaker's first claim is startling Rus Bowden 2009
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The speaker in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 8" from Sonnets from the Portuguese once again finds herself baffled with the attention she receives from one who is so much above her station in life.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Life in Italy with Robert Browning brought her renewed health, a child, and gave the world one of the most beautiful collections of love poems ever written, Sonnets from the Portuguese.
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