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TITLE DEED HOW DID CELEBRATED BOOKS GET THEIR NAMES? Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050731
Author:GARY DEXTER

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING was a competent translator, producing, among other works, versions of Aeschylus and Chaucer. Sonnets from the Portuguese, however, was not among her translations. The title was a cover for the author's own love-poems to Robert Browning, one of which was her famous "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'' (No 43). The choice of Portuguese was a significant one. Robert Browning's nickname for Elizabeth was "the Portuguese'', in reference to a poem of hers published before they had met, "Catarina to Camons'' (the story of Camons, the poet, and his tragic love for a ...

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