Supporting Documents

SD2370.  Diary Entry of Annie Adams Fields

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 349.

[Florence]

5 [April 1860]

… Read Mrs Browning’s new book which is full of fine enthousiasm but in the largest part Poetry seems forgotten in fire and ire—for Napoleon & against the world. “A curse for a nation” is for poor America.

Publication: Judith A. Roman, Annie Adams Fields (Bloomington, Indiana, 1990), p. 18 (in part).

Manuscript: Massachusetts Historical Society.

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