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Henry Alford : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. March 1838: 'Thank you for Alford's poems. There is much beauty in some of them -- but [italics]there is a want of abiding power[end italics]. Do you not think so? -- It might be a fault in my humour at the time I read them.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Henry Alford : Chapters on the Poets of Ancient Greece
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842: 'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? Mr Kenyon "caused it to pass before my face" & I did not complain of the briefness of the vision [...] I have been reading too by the same grace .. of dear Mr Kenyon .. Mr Alford's Chapters on the Greek poets. I dont like them at all. Such criticism, on the surface & of long familiarity with the common eye, the sense of the world has outgrown. It wd have done for those days when poetry was considered a pretty play like skittles, but is not suitable to this [italics]now[end italics], when its popularity as a toy is passed, & its depth & holiness as a science more surely tho' partially regarded.'
