Reviews

R410508A.  Pippa Passes.

The United Service Gazette, 8 May 1841, p. 6.

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 5.

Mr. Browning possesses the true spirit of Poesy, and if he would abjure ungraceful quaintness and affectation, would, no doubt, be as widely read as poetry can ever expect to be in these sordid days. He has here given us the first of a series of dramatic poems, which he promises to continue from time to time. His “Bells and Pomegranates” have much of the fine and apereal [sic] character of the more successful efforts of Keats and Shelley; but they want the vigour of the last, and have too much of the cockneyism of the first mentioned poet, to be appreciated beyond the select few who admire that sort of thing.

Reviewed:

Bells & Pomegranates. No. I. Pippa Passes (RB), London: Edward Moxon, 1841.

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