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SD1219.2.  Arthur Hugh Clough to Thomas Burbidge

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 9.

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Tuesday [19 November 1844]

I seem to have unaccountably little to say. I have read about half of Miss Barrett, and am rather disappointed with one long poem which I expected to find good, viz. the Vision of Poets: it is all in support of the Painfulness and Martyrdom Poet-Theory, the which I don’t agree to: nor I believe do you. Frederica Bremer converted me to the Joy-Theory of Life and the Universe, and to that as the more agreeable of the two, I am determined to stick, the arguments on both sides being about equal. Other poems I am much pleased with.

Publication: The Correspondence of Arthur Hugh Clough, ed. Frederick L. Mulhauser (Oxford, 1957), p. 139.

Manuscript: Bodleian Library.

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