Reviews

E441200A.  A Drama of Exile.

Godey’s Lady’s Book, December 1844, p. 283.

As reprinted in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 9, 374.

Mr. Henry G. Langley, of New York, has just published “A Drama of Exile and Other Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Barrett,” author of the Seraphim and other poems. Among the living poets of England, this author enjoys a very eminent position. Her writings are of such a character as to exert a powerful influence among the imaginative, the religious and the reflecting portions of the reading public. The subject of the poem, which fills the greatest space in the first volume, is such as the boldest poet must approach with reverence, treading in the footsteps of Milton. Mrs. Barrett in this, as in her former volume, handles the most sacred and sublime topics with a force and ability which all must admit; while there will undoubtedly be many, attached, like ourselves, to old fashions, who will startle at the diction, unusual as it is, and find great difficulty in appreciating the new and daring flights of speculation which present themselves throughout all the productions of the new school, of which Mrs. Barrett is the chief ornament.

Reviewed:

A Drama of Exile, and Other Poems (EBB), New York: Henry G. Langley, 1845.

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