R500600C. Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day.

The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, June 1850, p. 268.

As reprinted in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 397.

With great peculiarity and eccentricity, Mr. Browning is a genuine poet. Whether eccentricity is inseparable from genius we shall leave it to others to determine. Mr. Turner’s peculiarities have admirers, and some persons affect to discover merits in Mr. Carlyle’s German style. Mr. Browning’s poetic powers raise him almost above ordinary trammels, but it has been justly remarked of him, that “transcendentalism delivered in doggerel verse has throughout the effect of a discord.”

Reviewed:

Christmas-Eve & Easter-Day (RB), London: Chapman & Hall, 1850.

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