R500200A. Poems (Boston, 1850).
The Merchants’ Magazine and Commercial Review, February 1850, p. 255.
Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 16.
These volumes contain a collection of the dramatic and other poems of the author, many of which were out of print, or withdrawn from circulation, when the present edition was prepared. “The various poems and dramas received the author’s most careful revision.” The first volume contains “Paracelsas,” “Peppa Passes,” a drama; “King Victor and King Charles,” a tragedy; “Colombe’s Birthday,” a play. The second, four tragedies, besides a number of dramatic romances and lyrics, &c. James Russell Lowell, our favorite poet, says of Browning:—“To us he appears to have a wider range and greater freedom of movement, than any other of the younger English poets;” and Charles Dickens says of “A Blot in the ’Scutchion,” one of the dramas in the collection—“Once read, it must haunt the imagination forever; for its power strikes deep into the very substance and core of the soul. It is the finest poem of the century.”
[Freeman Hunt]
Reviewed:
Poems (RB), Boston: Ticknor, Reed, & Fields, 1850.
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