SD2049. William Michael Rossetti to William Bell Scott

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 254 (in part).

Inland Revenue Office,

17 February [1857]

… Aurora Leigh I am still reading. It is a most wonderful thing. One scarcely knows at what point to stop one’s enthusiasm, the wealth of poetic thought & sympathy is so magnificent, & yet one feels that there is a certain excess in it. Ruskin calls it the most splendid thing in the English language. …

Publication: Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, ed. Roger W. Peattie (University Park, Penn., 1990), pp. 76–79.

Manuscript: Arizona State University Library.

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