A review by dragonlilly
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

challenging inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.0

I didn't love most of the poems, mostly because of the lengthy writing style and how challenging some of the poems could be to grasp, although even after I seemed to understand them, I still did not find them interesting or very meaningful to me at least. I can still see how they were prettily thought out, especially Poems I, X, XI, and XLIII, and some of the poems have great ending lines:

XI - "To bless thee, yet renounce thee to thy face"

XXVI - "Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame"