How do I Love Thee?
If the four-letter word beginning with the letter L was replaced with another four-letter word beginning with F, would that poem and many other sonnets of pure love have survived for five minutes, let alone hundreds of years?
How Do I Love Thee? ~ Video
That single exchange became 574 letters over 20 months. Robert wrote to her constantly, passionate, philosophical, playful letters that treated her not as an invalid but as an equal. As a woman whose mind was as alive as her body was supposedly dying.
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