Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849:
'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere -- I fancy in the Spectator -- and was not much struck by the extracts. They may however have been selected without much discriminaton [...] I am very glad that you like the Gipsey Carrol in dear Mr Kenyon's volume, because it is, & was in M.S., a great favorite [sic] of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Serial / periodical
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849:
'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music .. but I am disappointed in the book as a whole. What I like infinitely better, is Clough's "Bothie of Topernafuosich" a "long-vacation pastoral" written in loose & more-than-need-be unmusical hexameters, but full of vigour & freshness, & with whole passages & indeed whole scenes of great beauty & eloquence. It seems to have been written before the other poems [...] Oh, it strikes both Robert & me as being worth twenty of the other little book, with its fragmentary, dislocated, inartistic character. Arnold's volume has two good poems in it .. "The Sick King of Bokhara" [sic] & "The deserted Merman" [sic]. I liked them both -- But none of these writers are [italics]artists[end italics] whatever they may be in future days.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
