WorkRobert Browning
Robert Browning (1812–1889) · 1850
InferredFuller refers to "B.'s new poem"—B. for Robert Browning, whom she has been seeing regularly in Florence. The work is "Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day," published April 1, 1850, Browning's first new work since his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett and their move to Italy. Browning had apparently arranged to send a copy to William Wetmore Story, making this the only new Browning poem of 1850.
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Documented 1845–1850
Letters • Essays
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“will you ask W. Story if he has any of Robert Browning's poems to lend me for a short time. They shall be returned safe. I only want them a few days to make some extracts for the paper.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
“Or at times a modern volume—Wordsworth’s solemn-thoughted idyl, Howitt’s ballad-dew, or Tennyson’s god-vocal reverie,— Or from Browning some “Pomegranate”
Fuller, Margaret. "Miss Barrett’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 January 1845. · 4 January 1845
“Robert Browning is scarcely known in this country, as, indeed, in his own, his fame can spread but slowly, from the nature of his works.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Browning’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 April 1846. · 1 April 1846
“You may have seen B.'s new poem by this time. I suppose he had written to W. he took his address long ago for that purpose.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller refers to "B.'s new poem"—B. for Robert Browning, whom she has been seeing regularly in Florence. The work is "Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day," published April 1, 1850, Browning's first new work since his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett and their move to Italy. Browning had apparently arranged to send a copy to William Wetmore Story, making this the only new Browning poem of 1850.
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“There are exceptions; for instance, the perceptions and pictures of Browning seem as delicate and just here on the spot as they did at a distance”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XIV." New-York Daily Tribune, .