| Evidence: | Letter H 49 (late November 1856)
?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama) ? but it is a noble drama too ? ?
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 1856 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Probably Britain, but the reader did travel to Europe on extended tours | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | John Ruskin |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 08 Feb 1819 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer and art critic |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Probably Britain, but the reader did travel to Europe on extended tours |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Title: | Aurora Leigh |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 3865 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | John Ruskin | |
| Editor: | Virginia Surtees | |
| Title: | Sublime and InstructiveLetters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1972 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 194-5 | |
| Additional comments: | From the editor?s footnote: ?Aurora Leigh had been recently published. In writing to Browning on Nov. 27th, Ruskin used nearly the same choice of words: ?I think Aurora Leigh the greatest poem in the English language? ? When lending his copy to a friend he wrote: ?I send Aurora at last. It is not marked ? no use marking ? unless one illuminated it ? line by line.?1 1(The Works of John Ruskin, Library Edition, ed. E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, 39 vols, George Allen, 1903-12, Volume 36, pp. 247-8) |
| Citation: | John Ruskin, Virginia Surtees (ed.), Sublime and InstructiveLetters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton (London, 1972), p. 194-5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3865, accessed: 03 December 2023 | |
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