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SD2703.  Diary Entry of William Allingham

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 305 (in part).

[London]

26 June [1864]

To Warwick Crescent; Pen Browning, then enter the great Robert, who greets me warmly and gives me ‘Dramatis Personæ.’ He commended Bloomfield with reservation—‘Not so poetical as some of your things—but O so clever.’ We talk of Tennyson, etc.

Text: William Allingham, A Diary, ed. H. Allingham & D. Radford (London, 1908), p. 100.

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