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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
t for publication, but as a jeu d'esprit; and sent it to Briggs, who took responsibility of publishing. Said that Browning had a good deal of jealousy of Tennyson, whereas Tennyson was too absorbed in himself to be jealous of Browning. B. has Jewish blood, but will not admit it. [I asked his reasons for thinking B. Jewish.] No one who has studied his face can doubt it. He used in one case a Hebrew line, then cancelled it in a later edition. Besides, if you dine with a Jew in London, you arB. Jewish.] No one who has studied his face can doubt it. He used in one case a Hebrew line, then cancelled it in a later edition. Besides, if you dine with a Jew in London, you are sure to meet Browning. [These arguments seemed to me quite insufficient.] His death (Aug. 12, 1891) took from us a man rich beyond all other Americans in poetic impulses, in width of training, in varied experience, and in readiness of wit; sometimes entangled and hampered by his own wealth; unequal in expression, yet rising on the greatest occasions to the highest art; blossoming early, yet maturing late; with a certain indolence of temperament, yet accomplishing all the results of strenuo