Reviews

E510700C.  Prometheus Bound, and Other Poems; Including Sonnets from the Portuguese, Casa Guidi Windows, etc. (New York, 1851).

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, July 1851, pp. 280–281.

As reprinted in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 323.

C.S. Francis and Co. have republished a new volume of Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, containing “Prometheus Bound,” “A Lament for Adonis,” “Casa Guidi Windows,” and a variety of miscellaneous pieces. They bear the authentic impress of Mrs. Browning’s peculiar genius, abounding in bursts of noble inspiration, combined with the workings of earnest reflection, and expressed in a style which is no less remarkable for the richness of its classic adornings, than for its wild, erratic strength, and its frequent displays of an almost pu- [p. 281→] erile simplicity. The typographical appearance of this volume is very neat.

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Prometheus Bound, and Other Poems (EBB), New York: C.S. Francis, 1851.

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