Reviews

R500100A.  Poems (Boston, 1850).

The Knickerbocker Magazine, January 1850, p. 81.

As reprinted in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 349.

From Ticknor, Reed and Fields, Boston, we have two handsomely-executed volumes of “Poems by Robert Browning,” many of which had been out of print, and the rest withdrawn from circulation, when the present edition was prepared and carefully corrected and revised by the author. Walter Savage Landor fronts the title-page with a complimentary sonnet, in which he says:

Browning! since Chaucer was alive and hale,

No man hath walkt along our roads with step

So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue

So varied in discourse.

This, if deserved, is high praise; “and what avails it,” as the Arabs have it, “if a man commendeth you for that which you possess not?”

Reviewed:

Poems (RB), Boston: Ticknor, Reed, & Fields, 1850.

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