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The Reception of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh: A Rare-Item Analysis of Four Letters

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to John Kenyon, mid-March, 1855 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Jane Wills-Sanford, 2 March, 1857 Robert Bulwer Lytton to Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, 26 December 1856 John Ruskin to Robert Browning, 27 November, 1856 The Reception of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s…

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Queen Mab and Masque of Anarchy

Percy Shelley, Queen Mab (London: Printed and published by W. Clar 1821); annotation p. 180 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ABLibrary 19thCent PR5417 .A1 1821b Percy Shelley, Masque of Anarchy. A Poem. Now First published with a preface by Leigh Hunt (London: Edward Moxon, 1832)…

Charting the Landscape of the “Inner Life”: Editing, Publishing, and Categorizing the Religious Verse of Christina Rossetti

Jones, Robert Crompton, ed. Poems of the Inner Life: Selected Chiefly from Modern Authors. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. Print. Rossetti, Christina. Time Flies: A Reading Diary. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890. Print. —. Verses. London: Society for Promoting…

Manuscript: EBB poem on the death of Lord Byron

Manuscript. Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the death of Lord Byron. [2 p.] Not dated. Holograph, unsigned. Poem of 38 lines with additions and corrections. Rare Item Analysis: Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the Death of Lord Byron By Robin Landrith In response to Lord Byron’s…

Manuscript: EBB’s Sonnet “On a Portrait of Wordsworth, By B. R. Haydon”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Mr. Haydon’s Portrait of Wm. Wordsworth. [1 p.] [ca. 1842]. Holograph sonnet unsigned. Published in The Athenaeum, 29 Oct. 1842. Later published in her Poems (1844). Leaf 3 recto of her autograph notebook Rare Item Analysis: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet “On a…

Coleridge, Politics, and the Role of Government

Unpublished Letter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “1813, Oct. 2, Samuel Taylor Coleridge to T.G. Street” Rare Item Analysis: Coleridge, Politics, and the Role of Government By Daniel Adams Presentation: Adams Rare Item Presentation The rare item is a letter written by Romantic poet Samuel Taylor…

A Woman’s Take: Lyrical Tales by Mary Robinson

Robinson, Mary, Lyrical Tales (London: Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees by Biggs and Co., Bristol, 1800). First edition. ABLibrary 19thCent PR5233.R27 L97 1800 Rare Item Analysis: A Woman’s Take By Sarah Kramer Presentation: Kramer Rare item presentation Mary Robinson, née Darby, was an…

William Blake’s Illustrations of The Grave by Robert Blair

The Grave, a poem. By Robert Blair. Illustrated by twelve etchings executed from original designs [designs by Blake]. London: Printed by T. Bensley, for the proprietor, RH Cromek (1808):  ABLibrary Rare OVZ  X 821.59 B635g Rare Item Presentation By Bahar Saber William Blake…

“A Wonderful Variety of Mud:” Correspondence related to Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book

Correspondence related to Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book 19 November 1862. Browning, Robert to Blagden, Isa. 19 March 1866. Browning, Robert to Panizzi, Anthony. 19 November 1868. Browning, Robert to Wedgwood, Julia. 30 January 1869. Wedgwood, Julia to Browning, Robert. 1 February…

Five Browning Letters Related to Chartism and the Working Classes

Five Browning Letters Related to Chartism and the Working Classes EBB to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (Document ID in The Brownings’ Correspondence: Letter 2724) EBB to John Kenyon (Document ID in The Brownings’ Correspondence: Letter 2730) EBB to Julia Martin (Checklist Number in The Browning…