E580200A. Poems (Pocket Edition, New York, 1857).

Southern Literary Messenger, February 1858, p. 160.

As reprinted in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 381.

A charming copy in blue and gold of the complete Poetical works of Mrs. Browning, including that striking novel in blank verse of “Aurora Leigh,” which has excited so much remark in literary circles as the highest embodiment of her genius. We like Mrs. Browning and we like her not, “the reasons why” we might tell if limits were not prescribed to us here, but waiving any objections to her peculiar views of life and her affectations in composition, we rejoice to place so sweet a triplet of volumes upon the shelves of our library among the poets of the century.

Reviewed:

Poems (EBB), 3 vols. (32mo., blue & gold), New York: C.S. Francis, 1857.

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