SD2836. William Michael Rossetti to Thomas Dixon

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 348 (in part).

166 Albany Street,

2 September [1866]

Dear Dixon,

I have your two letters, August 26 and 29, to answer. …

Swinburne’s superiority over his contemporary poets, with the sole possible exception of Tennyson, appears to me to lie in his mastery of all the literary or artistic resources of poetry—versification, language, harmony, vividness of expression, etc.: there are other qualities in which Tennyson and Browning, at any rate, may be preferred. …

Publication: Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, ed. Roger W. Peattie (University Park, Penn., 1990), pp. 150–151.

Manuscript: University of Texas.

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