SD1480. Diary Entry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 267 (in part).

[Cambridge]

25 April 1851

The papers are all ringing with Sumner, Sumner! … A quiet evening, reading Mrs. Barrett Browning’s Love Sonnets,—“Sonnets from the Portuguese,” she entitles them. A very admirable series of poems!—rather dusky at times, but deep and impassioned.

Publication: The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Samuel Longfellow (Boston, 1886–91), 13, 207.

Manuscript: Harvard University.

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