SD2014. Coventry Patmore to William Allingham
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 261.
[London]
Dec. 14. /56.
My dear Allingham,
I could not look at your ms. before …
Have you read Aurora Leigh. Is it not strange that writers—and still more strange that readers—should prefer shrieking G. or F. to singing E. or D.? But the book abounds with “fine things” and will be a “tremendous success” no doubt. We linnets must bide our time. …
Publication: Basil Champneys, Memoirs and Correspondence of Coventry Patmore (London, 1900), II, 183–184.
Manuscript: University of Illinois.
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