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1859 AD (search for this): chapter 12
ot a great poem, but many of its passages are great. It contains much vigorous thought; many profound spiritual truths delicately and forcibly expressed; much noble description of natural scenery. It is a book to be read by detached passages rather than as a single work of art; and to one reading it thus it is full of interest and profit. Though not worthy of being the great work of Mrs. Browning's life, it must hold a high rank among the poems which the present century has produced. In 1859 Mrs. Browning published a little book entitled Poems before Congress. These poems, which contained eulogies upon Louis Napoleon for the assistance which he had rendered to Italy in her struggle for independence, and blamed England for lukewarmness toward the new nation struggling into freedom, were severely criticised by the English press. She was called disloyal to her native land, and was said to have prostituted her genius to eulogizing a tyrant and usurper. How far her opinions as to N
1861 AD (search for this): chapter 12
purified, stainless, having had the angel of a great cause walking with you in the furnace. But she did not live to see her prophecy verified. The disease against which she had so long struggled, broke out with new violence in the spring of 1861. So rapid was its progress that her friends did not realize her danger until death was near. She wasted away in rapid consumption, and died on the morning of the 29th of June. Her last words, or rather her first words when the heavenly glory buo her memory:-- Here wrote and died E. B. Browning, who in the heart of a woman united the science of a sage and the spirit of a poet, and made with her verse a golden ring binding Italy and England. Grateful Florence placed this memorial, 1861. To those who loved Mrs. Browning, says a friend in a letter published in the Atlantic monthly for September, 1861, (and to know her was to love her), she was singularly attractive. Hers was not the beauty of feature; it was the loftier
1833 AD (search for this): chapter 12
d other poems, published in 1826. The Essay on mind was an ambitious and immature production, in heroic verse, which the author omitted from the collection of her poems which she afterward made, and which is in consequence rarely to be found. A critic in the Edinburgh review speaks of it as neither possessing much intrinsic merit nor giving great promise of originality, but as remarkable for the precocious audacity with which it deals with the greatest names in literature and science. In 1833 she published a translation of the Prometheus bound of Aeschylus. This translation was severely criticised at the time of its publication, and Miss Barrett herself was so dissatisfied with it that she executed an entirely-new version, which was included in a subsequent collection of her poems. In 1835 she formed an acquaintance with Mary Russell Mitford, which soon ripened into intimacy. To this intimacy the public are indebted for Mrs. Browning's charming little poem, addressed To flus
June 29th (search for this): chapter 12
t it is transition; that it is crisis, and that you will come out of the fire purified, stainless, having had the angel of a great cause walking with you in the furnace. But she did not live to see her prophecy verified. The disease against which she had so long struggled, broke out with new violence in the spring of 1861. So rapid was its progress that her friends did not realize her danger until death was near. She wasted away in rapid consumption, and died on the morning of the 29th of June. Her last words, or rather her first words when the heavenly glory burst upon her vision, were, It is beautiful. Twenty-three days after Cavour's death plunged Italy in mourning, and saddened the friends of liberty through the world. The impassioned poet and the heroic statesman of the new nation were both taken from it while it was on the very threshold of its life. Had they both lived, the one would, by his resistless energy and far-sighted wisdom, have given the land so dearly lo
1851 AD (search for this): chapter 12
poet who had sung the heroism and suffering of the late war in strains of such power and pathos as those in which she sang the song of Italy. Her love for her adopted country was not a mere romantic attachment to its beauty and treasures of art and historic associations. It was a practical love for its men and women. She longed to see them elevated, and therefore she longed to see them free. Her affection for Italy found its first expression in Casa Guidi windows, which was published in 1851. This poem, says the preface, contains the impressions of the writer upon events in Tuscany of which she was a witness. . . .. It is a simple story of personal impressions whose only value is in the intensity with which they were received, as proving her warm affection for a beautiful and unfortunate country, and the sincerity with which they were related, as indicating her own good faith and freedom from partisanship. The poem consists of two parts, the former of which (written in
1856 AD (search for this): chapter 12
p, holy spirit, blessed soul; While the stars burn the winds increase, And the great ages onward roll. That of Mrs. Browning:-- So look up, friends I you who indeed Have possessed in your house a sweet piece Of the Heaven which men strive for, must need Be more earnest than others are, speed Where they loiter, persist where they cease. It is easy to decide which of the two stanzas is more beautiful; and it is not difficult to determine which is in its essential contents the nobler. In 1856 Aurora Leigh was published. This poem, which Mrs. Browning calls the most mature of my works, and that into which my highest convictions upon life and art have entered, was finished in England, under the roof of the writer's cousin and friend, John Kenyon,--to whom it is dedicated. Mr. Kenyon was a genial and cultivated gentleman, the author of several graceful poems. He died in 1858, leaving his cousin a considerable addition to her fortune. Aurora Leigh is a Social epic,--a sort of n
1826 AD (search for this): chapter 12
ect her taste, and render much of her language less obscure. Indeed, in spite of her wide reading, one can but form the impression from perusing her writings that she did not receive a thorough and systematic mental training. Had she been able to receive the drill of the grammar school and university she might have used her extraordinary natural gifts to far greater advantage. Miss Barrett's first published volume was a small book entitled An essay upon mind and other poems, published in 1826. The Essay on mind was an ambitious and immature production, in heroic verse, which the author omitted from the collection of her poems which she afterward made, and which is in consequence rarely to be found. A critic in the Edinburgh review speaks of it as neither possessing much intrinsic merit nor giving great promise of originality, but as remarkable for the precocious audacity with which it deals with the greatest names in literature and science. In 1833 she published a translation
1858 AD (search for this): chapter 12
s more beautiful; and it is not difficult to determine which is in its essential contents the nobler. In 1856 Aurora Leigh was published. This poem, which Mrs. Browning calls the most mature of my works, and that into which my highest convictions upon life and art have entered, was finished in England, under the roof of the writer's cousin and friend, John Kenyon,--to whom it is dedicated. Mr. Kenyon was a genial and cultivated gentleman, the author of several graceful poems. He died in 1858, leaving his cousin a considerable addition to her fortune. Aurora Leigh is a Social epic,--a sort of novel in blank verse. The following is a brief outline of its plot: Aurora Leigh, the heroine, who is represented as telling the story of her life, is a lady of Italian birth, the daughter of an English gentleman, who, while making a brief visit to Florence, fell in love with and married a beautiful Italian woman. Aurora lived in Italy until thirteen years old, when, her parents havin
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