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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. February 1838:
'I [italics]will[end italics] thank you for all the pleasure I have had in reading these poems -- so full of strong thoughts & lovely stedfast feelings [...] "Moonlight" is full of beauty [...] Of the "occasional verses" [...] I like least the "neglected wife" & like most [...] "music" -- & "Bromfield Churchyard", & "Reminiscence", & the "Two harps" & the powerful "Destiny"'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Manuscript: Unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. June 1838:
'The opening stanzas of your poem would charm Criticism into silence, even if she had a little to say [goes on to discuss piece in detail] Thank you for the great pleasure I have had in reading this poem -- Its concluding stanzas are animated & forcible, & leave an impression'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Manuscript: Unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 10 November 1841:
'I have been wandering in Lower Austria [sic] -- very much pleased -- by the help of your
music-tongued & smiling philosophy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842:
'The "Rhymed Plea" is admirable "after its kind" -- but with all my true & admiring regard for its
author & his writings I could not be content to receive it as sole comforter for the absence of
higher inspirations.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1842:
'Mr Kenyon called yesterday [...] and he left Lady Blessington's Annual [...] The annual is
fuller of trash than usual I think, which is saying a good deal of ill. His own contribution
indeed is a very excellent & poetical paraphrase of Schiller's "Gods of Greece" -- & there is a
prose story by Mr Landor which has much beauty in his peculiar manner, -- & there is,
moreover, a graceful fairy story by Miss Garrow, which I prefer to her last year's ballad,
although retaining my opinion of the want of individuality & of power.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
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 [sic] 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 Barrett Manuscript: Unknown
