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SD2361.  John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 348.

[London]

[late March 1860]

 

… Mrs Browning’s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is spoiled for rhyme’s sake.

Text: Sublime & Instructive: Letters from John Ruskin, ed. Virginia Surtees (London, 1972), p. 224.

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