Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849:
'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music .. but I am disappointed in the book as a whole. What I like infinitely better, is Clough's "Bothie of Topernafuosich" a "long-vacation pastoral" written in loose & more-than-need-be unmusical hexameters, but full of vigour & freshness, & with whole passages & indeed whole scenes of great beauty & eloquence. It seems to have been written before the other poems [...] Oh, it strikes both Robert & me as being worth twenty of the other little book, with its fragmentary, dislocated, inartistic character. Arnold's volume has two good poems in it .. "The Sick King of Bokhara" [sic] & "The deserted Merman" [sic]. I liked them both -- But none of these writers are [italics]artists[end italics] whatever they may be in future days.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1849 and 1 Dec 1849 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 6 Mar 1806 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Matthew Arnold |
Title: | 'The Forsaken Merman' |
Genre: | Fiction, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | In The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849) |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19607 | |
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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: | 30 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 2007), 16, p. 30, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19607, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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