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Thomas Westwood
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Elizabeth Barrett : 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 August 1843: 'I intended to return the book much earlier, but [...] the "Legend" was most peremptory in its demand to be read & re-read & then it positively refused to go back, till a copy had been made. So we were obliged to set a nimble little hand to work, & can now part with the volume, with the satisfactory feeling that all we most value in it, we have made our own. I cannot tell you how much I admire the poem, for every time I read it -- my liking increases.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: Book
Robert Browning : Pippa Passes
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa passes" -- is almost the only poem of his that I have seen -- the commencement I thought very beautiful, & the [italics]design[end italics] of the poem altogether, -- but the interior is often so labyrinthine, that it is not the easiest matter in the world to thread one's way [...] Turning over some numbers of the Athenaeum, last night, I came upon a review of [R. H. Horne's Orion], which the first half- dozen lines proclaimed to be yours. How pleasant it is, all of a sudden, to turn round a corner, & be met by some familiar face [...] 'I read the "Brown Rosarie["] the other day to a young friend, an artist & he was so much delighted with it, that he determined forthwith to execute a set of designs from it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett : review of Richard Hengist Horne, Orion
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa passes" -- is almost the only poem of his that I have seen -- the commencement I thought very beautiful, & the [italics]design[end italics] of the poem altogether, -- but the interior is often so labyrinthine, that it is not the easiest matter in the world to thread one's way [...] Turning over some numbers of the Athenaeum, last night, I came upon a review of [R. H. Horne's Orion], which the first half- dozen lines proclaimed to be yours. How pleasant it is, all of a sudden, to turn round a corner, & be met by some familiar face [...] 'I read the "Brown Rosarie["] the other day to a young friend, an artist & he was so much delighted with it, that he determined forthwith to execute a set of designs from it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: Serial / periodical
Elizabeth Barrett : 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa passes" -- is almost the only poem of his that I have seen -- the commencement I thought very beautiful, & the [italics]design[end italics] of the poem altogether, -- but the interior is often so labyrinthine, that it is not the easiest matter in the world to thread one's way [...] Turning over some numbers of the Athenaeum, last night, I came upon a review of [R. H. Horne's Orion], which the first half- dozen lines proclaimed to be yours. How pleasant it is, all of a sudden, to turn round a corner, & be met by some familiar face [...] 'I read the "Brown Rosarie["] the other day to a young friend, an artist & he was so much delighted with it, that he determined forthwith to execute a set of designs from it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: Book
Richard Hengist Horne : Orion
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 December 1843: 'I must not forget to thank you for your recommendation of "Orion" -- I have read it again & again, & like it exceedingly -- I thought it a little [italics]cold[end italics] at first, but lost sight of that in the second reading'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Ode to a Skylark
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so far aloof from common feelings, & common sympathies -- There are poems of his, which I never tire of reading -- the "ode to a Skylark", & "Alastor", & part of the "Prometheus", & that magnificent first canto of the "Revolt of Islam", with the fight of the eagle & serpent'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Alastor
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so far aloof from common feelings, & common sympathies -- There are poems of his, which I never tire of reading -- the "ode to a Skylark", & "Alastor", & part of the "Prometheus", & that magnificent first canto of the "Revolt of Islam", with the fight of the eagle & serpent'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Prometheus Unbound
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so far aloof from common feelings, & common sympathies -- There are poems of his, which I never tire of reading -- the "ode to a Skylark", & "Alastor", & part of the "Prometheus", & that magnificent first canto of the "Revolt of Islam", with the fight of the eagle & serpent'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : The Revolt of Islam (Canto I)
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so far aloof from common feelings, & common sympathies -- There are poems of his, which I never tire of reading -- the "ode to a Skylark", & "Alastor", & part of the "Prometheus", & that magnificent first canto of the "Revolt of Islam", with the fight of the eagle & serpent'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: Book
Richard Hengist Horne : plays
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844: 'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many thanks -- we have read them all, & admired them all [...] I confess I have formed an almost higher opinion of Mr Horne's genius from them, than from "Orion" [poem] [...] "Delora["] too, has many fine passages, -- and I should be more particular in adverting to them & others, were it not that your own pencil has forestalled me, so that my encomiums would be, in most cases, but a reiteration of your own [goes on to reflect upon pleasures of reading annotations by others in books]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: Book
Richard Hengist Horne : The Ballad of Delora
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844: 'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many thanks -- we have read them all, & admired them all [...] I confess I have formed an almost higher opinion of Mr Horne's genius from them, than from "Orion" [poem] [...] "Delora["] too, has many fine passages, -- and I should be more particular in adverting to them & others, were it not that your own pencil has forestalled me, so that my encomiums would be, in most cases, but a reiteration of your own [goes on to reflect upon pleasures of reading annotations by others in books]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett : Annotations in Richard Hengist Horne, The Ballad of Delora
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844: 'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many thanks -- we have read them all, & admired them all [...] I confess I have formed an almost higher opinion of Mr Horne's genius from them, than from "Orion" [poem] [...] "Delora["] too, has many fine passages, -- and I should be more particular in adverting to them & others, were it not that your own pencil has forestalled me, so that my encomiums would be, in most cases, but a reiteration of your own [goes on to reflect upon pleasures of reading annotations by others in books]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Richard Hengist Horne : A New Spirit of the Age
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, ?12 April 1844: 'I have just finished the second volume [of A New Spirit of the Age], dear Miss Barrett, & my fingers itch to tell you that I am quite positively sure that [italics]you are in more pages of the book than those headed by your name[end italics]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett : Poems
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 August 1844: 'I regret to say, dear Miss Barrett, that we have achieved our first reading of the book, & like silly children, who have plucked grape, by grape, till not one is left upon the stalk, we are wishing, with a sigh, that the pleasure were yet to come [...] let me thank you, first of all, for that little touch of kindness, which made itself warmly felt, when in cutting open the leaves I came to the "Romance of the Swan's Nest" [goes on to discuss other pieces in detail]'.
