SD1253. Walter Savage Landor to John Forster

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 12, 371–372 (in part).

[Bath]

[ca. 15 April 1846]

… I have written to Browning; a great poet, a very great poet indeed, as the world will have to agree with us in thinking. I am now deep in the Soul’s Tragedy. The sudden close of Luria is very grand; but preceding it, I fear there is rather too much of argumentation and reflection. It is continued too long after the Moor has taken the poison. I may be wrong; but if it is so, you will see it and tell him. God grant he may live to be much greater than he is, high as he stands above most of the living: latis humeris et toto vertice. But now to the Soul’s Tragedy, and so adieu till we meet at this very table. …

Text: John Forster, Walter Savage Landor, a Biography (London, 1869), II, 425.

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