Romance isn’t my thing, I think that shows in my rating, so really I’m not that qualified to give a fair review on the Sonnets From The Portuguese, but I suppose I can provide a perspective of it from someone who doesn’t read or enjoy any romance. Barrett-Browning wrote her 44 sonnets in 1850 after she and her husband Robert eloped to Italy, her parents disapproving of her marriage. These sonnets are directed at Robert and are very much your tradition love poem in many cases, whereas also aren’t afraid to explore themes of death and love within death, which I can credit the means in which such ideas were approached and presented. Browning is deserving of her legacy as a poet and her work had no glaring flaws, just unfortunately isn’t my thing.