Portugiesische Sonette, übertragen durch Hans Böhm

These 44 sonnets were never meant for publication. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote them in secret, slipping poems under her husband's door during their courtship in 1845-46, and only agreed to their publication years later at his insistence. When Robert Browning first read them, he declared them "the finest sonnets written in English since Shakespeare." The collection's title refers to his nickname for her - her dark features inspired him to call her his "little Portuguese." Now Hans Böhm brings these passionate, intimate verses to German readers, preserving the intricate architecture of the sonnet form while capturing the raw emotion of a woman baring her entire heart. Whether you read the original or this masterful translation, these poems remain an act of extraordinary vulnerability: one writer's complete surrender to love, rendered in fourteen lines of aching beauty.