...r as a student of wide and accurate information, capable of thought and research quite unusual for a woman of her time. On Zophiel; or, The Bride of Seven, Mrs. Brooks' fame as a poetess rests. Southey , after quoting from this poem, adds: So sings Maria del Occidente, the most impassioned and most imaginative of poetesses. Zophiel is an Oriental epic. Mrs. Brooks finds the suggestion for her...