Sonnet XXIX | Critical Overview
Since her death in 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s work has received increased critical attention and approbation. As Julia Markus notes in her 1995 study of the Brownings’ marriage Dared and Done, Barrett Browning’s first critical rave came from her future husband, who began his first letter to her with the statement “I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett” and who later prompted her to have the Sonnets from the Portuguese published because its poems constituted (in his opinion) the greatest sonnet sequence since Shakespeare’s. Many critics...
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