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John Edmund Reade : Italy

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 7 June 1838: 'I turned over the leaves of Mr Reade's poem for some minutes before I opened your letter'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Edmund Reade : Italy

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 April 1839: 'Mr Reade has power [...] both of thought & language [...] It [Italy] is the only poem of Mr Reade's I ever read [...] I may confess to [italics]you[end italics] that it [italics]provoked[end italics] me [i.e. with imitation of Byron]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Edmund Reade : Sacred Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 May 1843: 'Mr Reade's "Sacred Poems" I am now looking into by dear Mr Kenyon's kindness. He is [italics]in Wordsworth now[end italics], having made the circuit of the poets. What a phenomenon!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Edmund Reade : letter to Mary Russell Mitford

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 March 1844: 'My dearest friend I return Mr Reade's letter which amused me more perhaps than it [italics]shd[end italics] have done, as representing a human being bound, so, upon the agonizing wheel of an extreme & incessant vanity [...] Did you not laugh out loud when you read it? [goes on to mock Reade's views on his contemporaries in literature]'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

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