The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Etc. notes

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43 is principally a poem about the intense love and compassion a woman feels for her husband. The poem is taken from a collection of sonnets, entitled Sonnets from the Portuguese, which trace the interlude between 1945, when Elizabeth met her partner Robert Browning, to 1846, when they were married. Browning lived and wrote during the Victorian era, a time of major societal and economical change. This is reflected in her work, which draws on religious, polit...