SD1545. William Michael Rossetti to William Bell Scott
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 358 (in part).
38 Arlington Street,
8 February 1852
Dear Scott,
Your Bede (which I return) is an exceedingly impressive poem. …
I remember two lines in Browning’s Christmas Eve—something about “the last drops of blood—at the desiccated brain’s white roots”—about which Woolner has often expressed to me a feeling of real physical pain and horror. …
Publication: Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, ed. Roger W. Peattie (University Park, Penn., 1990), pp. 25–28.
Manuscript: Arizona State University.
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