![]() ![]() But Barrett Browning restores my belief in love I think and gives me a language to get beyond and underneath that four letter word. Sometimes I feel as if the word love is overused today - that it has perhaps become a cliché in our commercial world or is simply used too easily, too quickly. I think there is something about the fact that Barrett Browning is writing so directly from her own life experience (even though out of a desire for privacy she publishes them as if there were in translation from another source) that makes the poems feel so true, so real, and which for me in turn translates quite naturally into all of the different and intricate ways that I might love a person and/or be loved in return. ![]() In her sequence of 44 love sonnets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning does just that - counts and explores in the truest language imaginable all of the different ways in which she loves her dear husband, Robert Browning. 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.' A new Read of the Week from Lead Reader Clare, whose singing the praises of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. ![]()
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