Reviews

R460500A.  Luria and A Soul’s Tragedy.

The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, May 1846, p. 125.

As reprinted in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 12, 387.

The author of “Bells and Pomegranates,” meant by that title to indicate an endeavour towards something like an alternation or mixture of music with discoursing sounds with sense, poetry with thought, preferring this symbol to the expression, which might have been deemed ambitious. So well has he performed his task, that every one affecting to be conversant with the poetry of the age must make himself familiar with Robert Browning’s works, and will feel regret that so charming a writer is about for a time to unstring his melodious and thought-inspiring lyre. Mr. Browning has taken care, apparently, that his last part should also contain some of his best performances, for such both Luria and the poetry and prose of Chiappino’s life will generally be esteemed.

Reviewed:

Bells & Pomegranates. No. VIII. Luria; and A Soul’s Tragedy (RB), London: Edward Moxon, 1846.

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