Public-domain audiobook
Sonnets from the Portuguese (audiobook)
Free audiobook of Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 47 min in 44 sections, read by LibriVox volunteers.
47 minrunning time
44sections
≈ 7,000words
About this recording
Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular even in the poet's lifetime and it remains so today. Elizabeth was initially hesitant to publish the poems, feeling that they were too personal. However, Robert insisted that they were the best sequence of English-language sonnets since Shakespeare's time and urged her to publish them.
Sources & data
- From the LibriVox catalogue. Word count estimated at 9,300 words per hour of narration.