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Tuscany (Italy) (search for this): chapter 12
s 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 1848) describes the popular demonstrations in Florence occasioned by the promise of Duke Leopol
Florence (Italy) (search for this): chapter 12
me. She lived some time at Pisa, and thence removed to Florence, where the remainder of her life was passed. For nearlen years, says the writer from whom we have quoted above, Florence and the Brownings were one in the thoughts of many Englis(written in 1848) describes the popular demonstrations in Florence occasioned by the promise of Duke Leopold II. to grant arty had been crushed, describes the return of the Duke to Florence under the protection of Austrian bayonets, and gives utte an English gentleman, who, while making a brief visit to Florence, fell in love with and married a beautiful Italian woman.inues her journey to Italy. The party make their home in Florence. After some months had passe, Romney unexpectedly appearMrs. Browning was buried in the English burying-ground at Florence. The municipio have placed over the doorway of Casa Guiderse a golden ring binding Italy and England. Grateful Florence placed this memorial, 1861. To those who loved Mrs. B
Austria (Austria) (search for this): chapter 12
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 domination, and her person from Austrian rule. It calls for a deliverer to break the fetters of priestcraft and tyranny. It asks the sympathy of all European nations, each of which is so deeply indebted to Italy for literature and art:-- To this great cause of southern men, who st 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 protection 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 were then flocking t
Napoleon (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
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 Napoleon's character and motives in assisting Italy to freedom were correct is a question into which we will not enter here. Had she been living in the fall of 1867, she would probably have found occasion to modify her opinion. But of the nobility of the motives which actuated her to write as she did, the following extract from a letter which she wrote to a friend affords ample evidence:-- My book, she wrote, has had a very angry reception in my native country, as you probably observe; but I sh
Aurora, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
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, shs sister. This aunt, a prim, rigid, and stony person, endeavors, by subjecting Aurora to rigid discipline and the orthodox young lady's education, to eradicate the Iher, and mould her into a correct, accomplished, and commonplace Englishwoman. Aurora, though outwardly submissive, is secretly rebellious, and determines that her aed. Escaping them, she made her way to Paris, where a child is born to her. Aurora, after writing this story in a letter to a common friend of Romney and herself which she has passed, and she refuses to marry him. And so, as Romney has loved Aurora with unabated affection since his former offer of marriage, and as Aurora disco plot is awkward and improbable. The author trifles with her readers by making Aurora declare in the early part of the poem :-- I attest The conscious skies and a
Villa (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
r 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 franca. Such a poet and such a statesman were worthy of a nobler people. Mrs. Browning was buried in the English burying-ground at Florence. The municipio have placed over the doorway of Casa Guidi a white marble tablet, on which is inscribed the following beautiful tribute to 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. Gratefu
Torbay (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 12
g a friend that the translatress of the Prometheus of Aeschylus, the authoress of the Essay on mind, was old enough to be introduced into company. The next year Mrs. Browning met with that unfortunate accident which, with the yet sadder casualty of which it was the indistinct occasion, cast a dark shadow over her life. A blood-vessel was ruptured in one of her lungs. A milder climate being deemed necessary for her recovery, she went, in company with her eldest and favorite brother, to Torquay. There she remained nearly a year, and was rapidly gaining in vigor, when that sad event occurred which nearly killed her by its shock, and saddened much of her future life. Her brother was drowned while on a sailing excursion, within sight of the windows of the house in which she lived. Even his body was never found. This tragedy, writes her friend, nearly killed Elizabeth Barrett. She was utterly prostrated by the horror and the grief, and by a natural but most unjust feeling that
New Springs (Nevada, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ie. The world has seen many greater poets, but it has never seen one who thus clothed noble womanhood in noble verse. And in the same strain is the apostrophe to her little son in the last part of the poem, of which we would gladly quote the whole, but are obliged to content ourselves with these few lines:-- Stand out my blue-eyed prophet, thou, to whom The earliest world-daylight that ever flowed Through Casa Guidi windows chanced to come! And be God's witness that the elemental New springs of life are gushing everywhere. To cleanse the water-courses and prevent all Concrete obstructions which infest the air! Had Mrs. Browning died childless, she never could have written that noble poem entitled Mother and poet, in which she has expressed so powerfully the anguish of that Italian poetess, whose two sons fell fighting for Italian liberty. Nor could she have written Only a curl, that touching, exquisite poem written to console two bereaved friends in America. Those who a
Eden (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
e rivers, the birds and the flowers each in turn taking up the song, The scene now changes to the outer extremity of the light cast by the flaming sword. There Adam and Eve stand and look forward into the gloom. Eve, in an agony of remorse, throws herself upon the ground, and begs her husband to spurn her, his seducer, from him forever. Adam raises and comforts her, and assures her of his forgiveness and continued love. A chorus of invisible angels, who had ministered to their pleasure in Eden, then chant the exiles a faint and tender farewell. Lucifer now appears upon the scene, and taunts his victims upon their ruin, until he is interrupted and driven away by a lament coming from his lost love, the morning star. In the next scene Adam and Eve have advanced farther into a wild, open country. As they stand lamenting their fate, they are confronted by twelve shadowy creatures, which are the projections of the signs of the Zodiac,--the ram, the bull, the crab, the scorpion, etc
Europe (search for this): chapter 12
s indicating her own good faith and freedom from partisanship. The poem consists of two parts, 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 domination, and her person from Austrian rule. It calls for a deliverer to break the fetters of priestcraft and tyranny. It asks the sympathy of all European nations, each of which is so deeply indebted to Italy for literature and art:-- To this great cause of southern men, who strive In 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 protection of Austrian bayonets, and gives utterance to the execrations of the despairing patriots of Italy against
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