| Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844:
'[italics]Have[end italics] I read "Festus"? Certainly I have [...] Oh yes! I was much struck by
"Festus" [...] Both the "Festus" & the supplement apologetic to it, which appeared in the
Monthly Repository (I think) filled me with admiration [...] Its [italics]fault[end italics] is an
extraordinary inequality -- so really one falls down precipices continually; & from pinnacles of
grandeur, into profundities of badness. Parts of the poem are as bad, & as weak as is well
possible to be conceived of: and moreover [...] there is an occasional coarseness & gratuitous
indelicacy [...] Also, I will not say that there is not some over-daring in relation to divine
things [...] But when all is said, what poet-stuff remains!'
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Apr 1840 and 21 Feb 1844 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 6 Mar 1806 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Evangelical |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Philip James Bailey |
| Title: | Additional scene for Festus |
| Genre: | Poetry, Astrology / alchemy / occult |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | In The Monthly Magazine, April 1840 (pp.383-409) |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17306 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
| Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
| Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
| Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
| Vol: | 8 | |
| Page: | 217 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1990), 8, p. 217, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17306, accessed: 02 December 2023 | |
| Text a version of the Faust myth. Source eds note that additional scene printed in the New Monthly Magazine, April 1840, accompanied by editorial note explaining that scene "'has been written by way of rejoinder to our critique on the original Poem"'; eds also note that the Monthly Repository had already ceased publication when Festus appeared (see p.218 n.6 in source). |
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