E501100A. The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (New York, 1850).

The Christian Examiner, November 1850, p. 495.

As reprinted in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 313.

Though a very unequal merit attaches to the pieces by this authoress which have been separately circulated during the last few years, she has been universally allowed to have proved in some of them her possession of the richest poetical gifts. It would be a curious process of criticism to attempt to account for such occasional failures, of such a sort, too, side by side with such rare success. Supposing that our readers have been familiar with those of her poetical works which have been published before, we would commend to them this beautiful and complete edition of her works, on which the publishers have bestowed great pains. Mr. H.T. Tuckerman’s brief Essay on the Poems of Mrs. Browning, taken from his “Thoughts on the Poets,” furnishes an appropriate Introduction.

[George Edward Ellis]

Reviewed:

Poems (EBB), New York: C.S. Francis, 1850.

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