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Sincere doubt, doubtful sincerity, and 'Sonnets from the Portuguese 37.' (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
From: ANQ
Date: 19950922
Author:Smulders, Sharon
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was able to conflate and destabilize certain tropes characteristic of Elizabethan amatory lyric in her 'Sonnets from the Portoguese 37.' Through the sonnet, which has wreck and rescue as its subject, Browning found a way not only to incorporate novelty as well as truth but also to address the difficulty of sincere doubt by flouting the doubtful sincerity of tradition.
In "The Book of the Poets" (1842), Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes as "the completest 'Ars Poetica' extant" a line from Sidney's Astrophel and Stella: "Foole, sayde my Muse to mee, looke in thine ...
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