SD1331. Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 14, 372 (in part).

[London]

Septr 19. 1847

… Browning and his wife are still in Florence: both ravished with Italy and Italian life; so much so that I think for some years they will make it the Paradise of their poetical exile. I hold fast to my faith in “Paracelsus.” Browning and Carlyle are my two crowning men amongst the highest English minds of the day. Third comes Alfred Tennyson … Bye the bye—did you have happen upon Browning’s “Pauline”? a strange, wild, (in parts singularly magnificent) poet-biography: his own early life as it presented itself to his own soul viewed poetically: in fact, psychologically speaking, his “Sartor Resartus”: it was written and published three years before Paracelsus when Shelley was his God. …

Publication: RB-AD, p. 144.

Source: Transcript at British Library.

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