How long does it take to read Sonnets from the Portuguese?
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning takes about 1 hour 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 5 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1896. 59 pages, about 16,225 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 55 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"I love your verse with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett...and I love you too," Robert Browning wrote in January of 1845, thus initiating the most celebrated literary correspondence of the nineteenth century. For the next twenty months, he and the world-renowned poet Elizabeth Barrett exchanged letters and confidences. During their courtship, Elizabeth privately wrote a series of forty-four sonnets to Robert. Later, the sonnets were collected and called Sonnets from the Portuguese, after the folktale lovers Caterina and Camoens, who loved from afar. This new edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese presents the poems in an entirely new context. The large page size allows the sonnets the stature they deserve, and each poem is accompanied on the facing page with relevant excerpts from the love letters.
Subjects: English Sonnets, English Love poetry, Correspondence, Elston Press, Miniature books, Love-letters
