Reviews

E510700D.  Prometheus Bound, and Other Poems; Including Sonnets from the Portuguese, Casa Guidi Windows, etc. (New York, 1851).

The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, July 1851, p. 96.

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

We echo but the general sentiment, in saying that Mrs. Browning is the most accomplished poetical writer of the present day among lady authors. There is in her poetry freshness and vigor, breadth of intellect, and purity of expression;—a combination seldom met with in modern poems. “Casa Guidi Windows” is the principal poem in the present volume; it is a narrative of late revolutionary movements in Florence, as observed from Casa Guidi Windows, interspersed with reflections suggested by passing events. It contains many passages of great beauty, and is, perhaps, the finest, as well as the latest production, of Mrs. Browning’s pen. The sonnets from the Portuguese are new to us; we were most pleased with the fifth and sixth, though, indeed, the poorest of the entire number is far above the generally so-called sonnets.

The volume is issued in the usually neat and elegant style of Messrs. Francis & Co.’s publications.

Reviewed:

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

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