<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . (March 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . (March 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca . 1845--1846 and published first in 1850, is a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning . The collection was acclaimed and popular during the poet's lifetime and it remains so . </P> <P> Barrett Browning was initially hesitant to publish the poems, believing they were too personal . However, her husband Robert Browning insisted they were the best sequence of English - language sonnets since Shakespeare's time and urged her to publish them . To offer the couple some privacy, she decided to publish them as if they were translations of foreign sonnets . She initially planned to title the collection "Sonnets translated from the Bosnian", but Browning proposed that she claim their source was Portuguese, probably because of her admiration for Camões and Robert's nickname for her: "my little Portuguese". The title is also a reference to Les Lettres Portugaises (1669). </P>

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