SD821.2. Richard Monckton Milnes to Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 3.
Bawtry,
May 25th, 1837.
… Strafford is like a drawing of Michael Angelo. It is odd to have to complain nowadays of a style being too broad, but this is the case here. He says himself very truly of the play that it is rather action in character than character in action; and thus there is a stiffness as of cramp about the very vigour of the piece. But read it. …
Text: T. Wemyss Reid, Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes (London, 1890), I, 196.
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