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| Summary: | In 1850, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née MoultonBarrett, 1806–1861) published, in her anthology Poems, the series of sonnets entitled “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, which would later be published in a single volume. The series’ title suggests the exercise of an Anglo-Portuguese pesudotranslation, a fictional device that I analyze in this article, alongside the ‘anthologization’ of Portuguese poems supposedly translated by Browning. The sonnets were fictionally attributed to the ‘Portuguese’ Catarina (loved by Camões) to whom Browning had previously attributed a voice and amorous agency in her famous poem “Catarina to Camoens”, and therefore I also analyze the cult of Camões’ sonnets in England, especially after the publication of the anthology edited and translated by Lord Langford, Poems from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens (1803) |
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| Main Authors: | Puga, Rogério Miguel |
| Subject: | General Arts and Humanities SDG 4 - Quality Education SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | article |
| Access type: | open access |
| Associated institution: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Language: | English |
| Origin: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Summary: | In 1850, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née MoultonBarrett, 1806–1861) published, in her anthology Poems, the series of sonnets entitled “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, which would later be published in a single volume. The series’ title suggests the exercise of an Anglo-Portuguese pesudotranslation, a fictional device that I analyze in this article, alongside the ‘anthologization’ of Portuguese poems supposedly translated by Browning. The sonnets were fictionally attributed to the ‘Portuguese’ Catarina (loved by Camões) to whom Browning had previously attributed a voice and amorous agency in her famous poem “Catarina to Camoens”, and therefore I also analyze the cult of Camões’ sonnets in England, especially after the publication of the anthology edited and translated by Lord Langford, Poems from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens (1803) |
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