Reviews

R410600A.  Bells and Pomegranates.

Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, June 1841, p. 405.

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 5.

This is the first Part of a dramatic poem, by Mr. Browning, the author of Paracelsus. It bears the obscure title of Pippa Passes; meaning that the heroine, Pippa, a charming Italian peasant-girl, employed at the silk-mills in the Trevisian, passes before the reader; though, in their simplicity, many readers may imagine that the pippa passes may refer to some new-fangled flourishes in the noble art of self-defence. So much for the danger of an affected or equivocal title. The opening of the poem promises well, and contains some beautiful poetry, imbued with the philosophy conspicuous in Paracelsus.

Reviewed:

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

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