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Poetry Extra: 'How do I love thee... ?' by EB Browning

27/05/2018

'How do I love thee... ?' by EB Browning

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, 'How do I love thee... ?' by EB Browning

Daljit Nagra features the sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

4 Extra Debut. Poet-in-Residence Daljit Nagra introduces Adventures in Poetry featuring 'How do I love thee...?', the sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. From April 1999.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Adventures in Poetry - How do I love thee?' The love poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 

Peggy Reynolds counts the ways in which the nation's favourite love poem, Browning 's Sonnet 43 from the Portuguese, has had a lasting impact.

Producer: Sara Davies

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.

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