SD1465. Bryan Waller Procter to Thomas Forbes Kelsall

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 309 (in part).

13 Upper Harley St.

Xmas day 1850 [cont. Feb. 4. 1851]

[I send] the Beddoes letters to be printed except a few sentences struck out. …

Did you ever see any of Browning’s Lyrics? They are mostly rough and occasionally obscure—but abundant in thought and more original, I think, than any lyrics that the later age has produced—because I know scarcely any of my present contemporaries, however sweet their verses are, who have not in some degree built themselves upon their predecessors. …

Text: The Browning Box, ed. H.W. Donner (London, 1935), pp. 49–50.

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