Record Number: 19067
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 10 January 1845: 'I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett [...] since the day last week when I first read your poems, I quite laugh to remember how I have been turning and turning again in my mind what I should be able to tell you of their effect upon me [...] part of me it has become, this great living poetry of yours, not a flower of which but took root and grew [...] talking with whoever is worthy, I can give a reason for my faith in one and another excellence, the fresh strange music, the affluent language, the exquisite pathos and true new brave thought -- but in thus addressing myself to you, your own self, and for the first time, my feeling rises altogether [goes on to describe how had previously missed opportunity of being introduced to Barrett by their mutual friend John Kenyon].'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 15 Dec 1844 and 10 Jan 1845
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:7 May 1812
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Poems
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1844
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19067
Source:n/a
Editor:Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis
Title:The Brownings' Correspondence
Place of Publication:Winfield
Date of Publication:1992
Vol:10
Page:17
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1992), 10, p. 17, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19067, accessed: 11 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Source eds note that Kenyon had given a copy of Barrett's Poems to Browning's sister Sarianna during December 1844; and that Browning had only recently returned from Italy, having left England the day before the publication of Barrett's Poems in August 1844; see p.18 n.1.
