SD2028. William Bell Scott to William Michael Rossetti
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 264 (in part).
Newcastle
22 December 1856
My Dear W. M. R.,
I send you by Woolner a copy of the Leaves of Grass, which pray accept as a Xmas box. …
We are reading Aurora Leigh. Mrs. Browning comes out in a manly manner, not over-scrupulous. Perhaps never before were seen so much riches of poetic eloquence in one work. But it is only a novel, à la Jane Eyre, a little tainted by Sand. …
Text: Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism; Papers 1854 to 1862, ed. William Michael Rossetti (London, 1899), p. 147.
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