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SD2781.  William Bell Scott to William Michael Rossetti

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 324 (in part).

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[6 August 1865]

You remember Browning’s criticism on Swinburne’s beechnuts in spring. After all Browning is wrong, the old beechnuts are seen in spring and summer, they do not fall in autumn, they are last year’s nuts invariably we see lying under the trees. When one thinks over Browning’s irregular, involved, and mannered method of poetizing as one may say, he himself is the last who should demand local colour.

Publication: Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, ed. Roger W. Peattie (University Park, Penn., 1990), p. 137 (in part).

Manuscript: University of Durham.

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