Two people who fell in love through letters is my kind of love story. I wasn't familiar with the background story that inspired the poem so this was very enlightening read. Also, it's so uplifting to learn about people whose relationship was based on mutual support and adoration and Robert and Elizabeth sound like two people who found in each other their match.
So wonderfully old fashioned, and yet so utterly modern at the same time - a real meeting of minds. I remember having to write a response to Sonnet 43 as a university entrance piece and I didn’t know this story back then - so fixated on the language and not on the context!
How interesting, but you're right: sometimes we zero in the artist's work and not on the circumstances that inspired it, which are usually equally relevant to understand the output.
Oh this was so achingly romantic. With Valentines Day coming up, I’m so grateful for it. I’ll be reading their letters when I can. Thank you so much!
So glad it hit the same chord with you
What a love story that was! Letters are so romantic. I thinks sometimes it’s easier to express how we feel in a letter than in person.
Very true - it also makes their personal anxieties around their first meeting so understandable, doesn’t it?
Two people who fell in love through letters is my kind of love story. I wasn't familiar with the background story that inspired the poem so this was very enlightening read. Also, it's so uplifting to learn about people whose relationship was based on mutual support and adoration and Robert and Elizabeth sound like two people who found in each other their match.
So wonderfully old fashioned, and yet so utterly modern at the same time - a real meeting of minds. I remember having to write a response to Sonnet 43 as a university entrance piece and I didn’t know this story back then - so fixated on the language and not on the context!
How interesting, but you're right: sometimes we zero in the artist's work and not on the circumstances that inspired it, which are usually equally relevant to understand the output.