Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 February 1850:
'Such a magical act as conjuring up for me the sight of a new poem by Alfred Tennyson, is unnecessary to prove you a right beneficent enchantress. Thank you, thank you [...] But now ... you know how free and sincere I am always! .. now tell me [...] apart from a certain sweetness & rise & fall in the rhythm, do you really see much for admiration in the poem. Is it [italics]new[end italics] in any way? [...] I do [italics]not[end italics] perceive much in this lyric, which strikes me, & Robert also (who goes with me throughout) as quite inferior to the other lyrical snatches in the Princess. By the way, if he introduces it in the Princess, it will be the only [italics]rhymed[end italics] verse in the work. Robert thinks that he was thinking of the Rhine-echoes in writing it'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1850 and 18 Feb 1850 | ||||||||||
Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reading Group: | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writers |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Italy |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Alfred Tennyson |
Title: | (Probably) 'The Bugle Song' (opening 'The splendour falls') |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19608 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan | |
Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
Date of Publication: | 2007 | |
Vol: | 16 | |
Page: | 56-57 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 2007), 16, p. 56-57, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19608, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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