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Cavour (search for this): chapter 12
ou 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 loved by both a far nobler history for the other to sing. The death of both was hastened, their friends tell us, by their grief at the peace of Villa fr
Romney Leigh (search for this): chapter 12
us a double life, outwardly submissive and demure, but secretly enjoying intellectual and spiritual freedom, she reaches the age of twenty. Then her cousin, Romney Leigh, a young man of talent and worth, whose soul is bent upon schemes for improving the physical condition of the poor, asks her to become his wife. Suspecting tht Paris on the way, she meets upon the street Marian Erle. Accompanying her home she hears her story. Lady Waldemar (who had long cherished a secret love for Romney Leigh) had persuaded Marian that her affianced husband entertained no real affection for her, but was, in marrying her, sacrificing his own happiness on the altar off real life. They have not the semblance of probability. The adventures of Marian Erie, after her flight from England, are as absurd as they are disgusting. Romney Leigh, with his sublime disregard of self, his willingness to contract engagements of marriage to further his noble schemes, his ugly Juggernaut of philanthropy, und
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (search for this): chapter 12
nd position are more full of interest than Mrs. Browning's. She was not only far above all the femauntil after her husband's death. But what Mrs. Browning thought, felt, and was, is revealed with aed with the heroes and heroines of old. Mrs. Browning was a child of remarkable precocity. She ld fold. But it may be doubted whether Mrs. Browning was a thorough and scientific student of tf the workings of angelic natures? If, as Mrs. Browning so often tells us, truth is an essential q To speak plainly, the freedom with which Mrs. Browning in these earlier poems attempts to describy of those beautiful short poems, on which Mrs. Browning's claims to our gratitude chiefly rest, ar this in which to speak of a prose work of Mrs. Browning's, published after her death, but originalare of especial interest to the student of Mrs. Browning's poetry, as giving, in connection with he smoothness of the highest art. In 1846 Mrs. Browning left her sick-room (she was literally assi[14 more...]
John Kenyon (search for this): chapter 12
urora 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 noveMr. 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 having both died, she was taken to England, to live with her father's sister. This aunt, a prim, rigid, and stony per
Leopold (search for this): chapter 12
s, the former of which (written in 1848) describes the popular demonstrations in Florence occasioned by the promise of Duke Leopold II. to grant a constitution to Padua. It goes on from this to call upon Italy to free her conscience from priestly dIn God's name for man's rights, and shall not fail. The second part of the poem, written three years afterward, when Leopold had proved false, and the constitutional party had been crushed, describes the return of the Duke to Florence under the rotection of Austrian bayonets, and gives utterance to the execrations of the despairing patriots of Italy against false Leopold, a treacherous pope, and a lying priesthood. The poet then goes on in a magnificent strain to accuse the nations who wethat it should be full of the evidences of this its best affection. In the Casa Guidi windows, speaking of perjured Duke Leopold, she says:--I saw the man among his little sons; His lips were warm with kisses while he swore; And I, because I am a
Edward Y. Hincks (search for this): chapter 12
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Edward Y. Hincks. There has probably lived within the past century no woman whose genius, character, and position are more full of interest than Mrs. Browning's. She was not only far above all the female poets of her age, but ranked with the first poets. She was not only a great poet, but a greater woman. She loved and honored art, but she loved and honored humanity more. Born and reared in England, her best affections were given to Italy, and her warmest friends and most enthusiastic admirers are found in America. And when to her rare personal endowments is added the fact that she was the wife of a still greater poet than herself, what is needed to make her the most remarkable woman of this, perhaps of any, age? And, as there is no woman in whose life and character we may naturally take a greater interest, so there is none whom we have better facilities of knowing. Of the ordinary materials out of which biographies are made, her life indeed
Leigh Hunt (search for this): chapter 12
ly review for 1840 concludes an article in which are criticised the works of nine female poets, who are now nearly or quite all forgotten, except Mrs. Browning, in these words: In a word, we consider Miss Barrett to be a woman of undoubted genius and most unusual learning, but that she has indulged her inclination for themes of sublime mystery, not certainly without great power, yet at the expense of that clearness, truth, and proportion which are essential to beauty. At about this time Leigh Hunt speaks of her in the following language:-- Miss Barrett, whom we take to be the most imaginative poetess that has appeared in England, perhaps in Europe, and who will grow to great eminence if the fineness of her vein can but outgrow a certain morbidity. In our own country Mr. E. P. Whipple wrote, that,-- Probably the greatest female poet that England has ever produced, and one of the most unreadable, is Elizabeth B. Barrett. In the works of no woman have we ever observed s
Isobel (search for this): chapter 12
ce of criticism, and cannot fail to be the opinion of every candid and intelligent reader, that in the Drama of exile Mrs. Browning very often and very laughably rants. But those seven years of solitude and illness bore other and better fruit than the Drama of exile. Many of those beautiful short poems, on which Mrs. Browning's claims to our gratitude chiefly rest, are the fruit of that stern and protracted contest with extreme physical weakness and mental suffering. Then was written Lady Isobel's child; a poem which combines more of Mrs. Browning's peculiar powers,--her tenderness, her clear vision into the spiritual world, her ability to describe with wonderful vividness the appearances of nature, and her skill in using the pictures which she paints to heighten emotional effect,--with fewer faults than almost any of her other poems. Then, also, was written Bertha in the Lane, --the simplest and sweetest of her poems; and the Rime of the Duchess may, --a poem whose vigor of mo
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett (search for this): chapter 12
omanhood. We shall feel that the poet was greater than her poems. Elizabeth Barrett Barrett was born in London, in 1809. Her father was a private gentleman in owrote very crudely when past thirty. She never attained her full maturity. Miss Barrett's education was such as a woman rarely receives. She was taught in classicsmight 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 otThis 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 versi (Flush was a gift from Miss Mitford), and for the oft-quoted description of Miss Barrett as a young lady in her friend's Recollections of a literary life. This sk poet that England has ever produced, and one of the most unreadable, is Elizabeth B. Barrett. In the works of no woman have we ever observed so much grandeur of ima
Aurora Leigh (search for this): chapter 12
s. As Mrs. Browning herself afterward finely says in Aurora Leigh :-- Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, caich is in its essential contents the nobler. In 1856 Aurora Leigh was published. This poem, which Mrs. Browning calls th 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, i moral principle. In the full belief of this report, Aurora Leigh, having published a poem which contains the full ~exprected and symmetrical whole. Judged by this standard, Aurora Leigh cannot be pronounced a great poem. The plot is awkwardis not too much to say that the story and characters of Aurora Leigh seem like a very clumsy and ill-contrived piece of mech But, notwithstanding all the faults which disfigure Aurora Leigh, it is full of genius and power. It is not a great poe
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