Elizabeth Barrett Browning named her poem collection "Sonnets from the Portuguese" because she wanted to keep her love secret and pretend they were translations; she had a long illness that caused her to be weak and tired; and her father did not like her marrying Robert Browning and even disowned her for it.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most famous poets of her day. "Interflora" is a modern-day riff on one of her most popular poems, "Sonnet 43", which she wrote to her husband Robert Browning, himself a poet. She wrote this poem before her marriage but did not show it to her husband until two years later. Do some research on the Brownings to answer the questions below.
• Why did she call her most famous collection of poems Sonnets from the Portuguese?
• What kind of illness did Elizabeth Barrett Browning have?
• What did Elizabeth Barrett Browning's father think of her marriage to Robert Browning?
ONE SENTENCE ROBOT, ONE SENTENCE!!! USE 9 YEAR OLD WORDS
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