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An 1866 bust of Browning by William Wetmore Story on display at the Boston Athenaeum.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era. One of her most famous poems was first published in 1850 as number 43 in the collection Sonnets from the Portuguese. Its opening line asks the question, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways," while the rest of the poem attempts to answer.
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- The poet herself was parodied as Ms. Barrett, a Daughter of Poetry on Sesame Street in 2013.
- Big Bird recites his version of the poem in Episode 0059 when he falls in love with a toy duck.
- A pig on The Muppet Show uses the line to hit on Miss Piggy in the At the Dance sequence in episode 108.
- An Anything Muppet quotes the poem in a 1976 sketch with Bob in which his features have been arranged for him. (First: Episode 0921)
- Overhearing a poem recitation between Maria and Luis in Episode 2405, an eager Count von Count interjects with sonnet 43, and begins to literally count the ways.
- The Count quotes the opening lines of the poem in Episode 2722 when he presents his vase of roses to Countess von Backwards.