E620700D. Last Poems (New York).

The North American Review, July 1862, p. 285.

Listed in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 368.

Most of these poems were left in manuscript by the author. Some of them are among the best of her minor poems. Several have that union of masculine vigor with the profoundest womanly tenderness, which we could trace more and more in the last years of her life, and which marked the culmination of her powers. We have so recently discoursed at length on the peculiar traits of her genius, that little now remains which we should wish to add. Mr. Tilton’s “Memorial” is a warmly appreciative and at the same time a discriminating essay on her character and poems, and especially on her character as illustrated by her poems.

Reviewed:

Last Poems (EBB), New York: James Miller, 1862.

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