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lsparrow's review against another edition
2.0
made me miss letter writing relationships. although I was not as into the actual letters.
emareading's review against another edition
4.75
I liked EBB section more, sonnets 1, 11, 41, 43 LOVED.
Made me cry multiple times throughout
Made me cry multiple times throughout
cuddlesome's review against another edition
4.0
After having worked at Armstrong Browning Library in college I was familiar with the Brownings and interested in seeing their personal correspondences.
It’s basically two nerds waxing poetic (ha) back and forth and checking on each others’ health and being very affectionate. Some of the literary references they made went over my head but I’m glad to say I got most of them.
There was a misprint in this book at one point with white square spaces where there was meant to be either Greek or Hebrew. Whoops.
This isn’t so much a criticism as a wish—I think that the uninitiated might come into this book with no knowledge of the circumstances of the Brownings’ forbidden love, Elizabeth’s sickness, etc. so it might have benefited from an introduction and/or annotations. I’m sure there are other books with compilations of their letters that have those things that I’ll need to seek out.
It’s basically two nerds waxing poetic (ha) back and forth and checking on each others’ health and being very affectionate. Some of the literary references they made went over my head but I’m glad to say I got most of them.
There was a misprint in this book at one point with white square spaces where there was meant to be either Greek or Hebrew. Whoops.
This isn’t so much a criticism as a wish—I think that the uninitiated might come into this book with no knowledge of the circumstances of the Brownings’ forbidden love, Elizabeth’s sickness, etc. so it might have benefited from an introduction and/or annotations. I’m sure there are other books with compilations of their letters that have those things that I’ll need to seek out.
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