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Elizabeth Barrett and younger Moulton-Barrett brothers : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830: 'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racine's plays [...] It is several years since I read them by myself; and if they disgusted me then, they are intolerable to me now. The French have no part or lot in poetry [goes on to complain of what she perceives to be excessive formality and orderliness of French neoclassical poetry]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett and younger Moulton-Barrett brothers     Print: Book

younger Moulton-Barrett brothers : Greek text/s

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers read Greek; at two we are so patriarchal as to dine: and afterwards I go out upon a donkey [...] & read Pelham, & do many idle things'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: younger Moulton-Barrett brothers     Print: Book

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