英语词汇how do i love thee let me count the ways的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. The famous line above, from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Por- tuguese, is one of the best known in English poetry, but up until recently no one thought to actually count the ways Miss Barrett loved Mr. Browning in Sonnet XLIII. Author Randy Cohen did so and published the results in New York magazine, finding that she loved him “nine ways—unless ‘with the breath,/ Smiles, tears, of all my life’ is considered to be three separate ways, in which case she loved him a total of eleven ways.” Sonnets from the Por- tuguese was written for Robert Browning and published, report- edly, only because Browning felt: “I dared not keep to myself the finest Sonnets written in any language since Shakespeare’s.” There is, of course, no Portuguese model for the sonnets and they were probably called Sonnets from the Portuguese because Browning’s pet name for his wife was “my little Portuguese.”

词汇	how do i love thee let me count the ways
词源	How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. The famous line above, from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Por- tuguese, is one of the best known in English poetry, but up until recently no one thought to actually count the ways Miss Barrett loved Mr. Browning in Sonnet XLIII. Author Randy Cohen did so and published the results in New York magazine, finding that she loved him “nine ways—unless ‘with the breath,/ Smiles, tears, of all my life’ is considered to be three separate ways, in which case she loved him a total of eleven ways.” Sonnets from the Por- tuguese was written for Robert Browning and published, report- edly, only because Browning felt: “I dared not keep to myself the finest Sonnets written in any language since Shakespeare’s.” There is, of course, no Portuguese model for the sonnets and they were probably called Sonnets from the Portuguese because Browning’s pet name for his wife was “my little Portuguese.”
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