While living on the sea coast, Elizabeth published her translation of Prometheus Bound (1833), by the Greek dramatist Aeschylus. ... In 1833, Browning's translation of Prometheus Bound received high praise. ... I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart - and I love you too." ... In "Sonnets from the Portuguese- Browning declares her strong emotions of love toward Robert Browning. ... Leighton describes Elizabeth's expressions as "fulsome and yet witty energy, which flirts and skirmishes with the inherited convections of the love sonnet."" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His works were considered to be the first "modern" poems and the inventor of the sonnet, writing over 300 sonnets. ... They include the "Africa", dealing with the Second Punic war and especially with the tales of Scipio Africanus, and the "Carmen bucolicum" which was made up of twelve poems. ... His daughter Francesca moved in with him. His friends such as Boccaccio, who brought him a Latin translation of Homer's poems, frequently visited him. ... His development of the sonnet helped influence literary greats like Shakespeare and Chaucer. ...

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After Petrarch studied the humanists before him, he began to write great sonnets and he was known to be the "father of humanism". Petrarch wrote lyric poetry dealing with individuals; he wanted to share knowledge for the public good. ... He started a library of the classics where he translated them for everyone to read. ... Boccaccio lived in Florence with Petrarch and Dante in 1350. ... (Fleming 253) After the fall of Constantinople the collection and translations of classical books or writings became really popular. ...

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• Grade Level: High School