See an illuminated version of the poem from an 1897 manuscript. Listen to a reading of the poem (with dramatic accompanying music). Brownings poems challenge the 'maleness' of the sonnet and use it to explore love from a female point. The British Library's overview of the sequence of which this poem is part. The sonnet form, in particular, had been, before Browning, a predominantly male art. Learn more about how the poet approached her art in this essay from Brain Pickings. Sonnet 43, by British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is one poem in a sequence of sonnets Browning published under the title Sonnets from the Portuguese. A short biography and links to more of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems. Watch a short talk on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's life and work-as well as on the extraordinarily romantic correspondence between the poet and her eventual husband. More “If thou must love me, let it be for nought (Sonnets from the Portuguese 14)” Resources.
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