Jennifer Holberg – Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese

Brent is joined by Jennifer Holberg to talk about another poet – this time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’.

Jennifer is professor and chair of the English Department at Calvin University in the States and co-director of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing.  She’s also the author of the book ‘Nourishing Narratives’. 

• (2:00) Who was Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
• (6:20) Why ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’?
• (8:50) Sonnets 2 and 8;
• (14:25) 20, 24 and 26
• (19:10) 42 and 43.

Links mentioned in this episode:

calvin.edu/people/jennifer-l-holberg

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