SD2036. John Brown to Andrew Coventry Dick
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 265 (in part).
[London]
Sunday [1857].
My dear Coventry—Have you read Froude, and have you gone into Aurora Leigh?—a book of immense genius and immense faults, and needlessly painful and indelicate, or perhaps more. Nowadays everybody insists on turning their own and everybody else’s insides all out. We have got into the pathological School in poetry and in novels. …
Text: Letters of Dr. John Brown, ed. J. Brown and D. W. Forrest (London, 1907), pp. 113–114.
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