SD1151.1. Diary Entry of Henry Crabb Robinson
Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 5.
[London]
March 29th. 1841
I went out after writing the above to breakfast with Milnes, and an agreeable meeting it was. There were poets, host included, viz.: Kenyon, Barry Cornwall, Browning, author of unreadable books, and Alfred Tennyson, who looks a bandit of genius—also Harness, Mrs. Procter, Hayward and myself and some others I do not now recollect. We stayed late, the talk lively and no one prominent—but Kenyon quite silent. …
Text: Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and Their Writers, ed. Edith J. Morley (London, 1938), II, 591.
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