SD1433. Coventry Patmore to William Allingham
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 297 (in part).
[London]
April 20, 1850
My Dear Allingham,
I return your poem, after looking at it again …
I have not seen anything of Browning’s book. He is a strange fellow. I can’t understand why he can’t set to and be a great man—but he never will. …
Text: Basil Champneys, Memoirs and Correspondence of Coventry Patmore (London, 1900), II, 174.
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