“In the ‘Drama of Exile’ and the ‘Vision of Poets,’ where she aims at a Miltonic flight or Dantesque grasp—not in any spirit of rivalry or imitation”
WorkElizabeth Barrett Browning
Drama of Exile
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Documented 1845–1846
Books • Essays
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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Confirmed reading
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
- undatedPreface to A Drama of ExileDemonstrated
“this paragraph from her Preface: "If it were not presumptuous language on the lips of one to whom life is more than usually uncertain, my favourite wish for this work would be...”
Papers on Literature and Art
Extensive ~67-line verbatim quotation from Barrett's Preface to A Drama of Exile.
When Fuller engaged with this work
1845—
Miss Barrett’s Poems.
“Miss Barrett’s Poems.”mentioned2 selected passages
“Of the “Drama of Exile” and other poems of the same character, we may say that we shall never read them again”
Fuller, Margaret. "Miss Barrett’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 January 1845.
1846—
Miss Barrett's Poems
“Miss Barrett's Poems”analyzed · read
“In the ' Drama of Exile' and the ' Vision of Poets,' where she aims at a Miltonic flight or Dantesque grasp — not in any spirit of rivalry or imitation, but because she is really possessed of a similar mental scope — her success is far below what we find in the poems of feeling and experience; for she has the vision of a great poet, but little in proportion of his plastic power.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p201
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p201; page given is to the 1869 reprint.