BIB_ID
402833
Accession number
MA 2147.2
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
"Thursday morng" [1840 May 21?].
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 11.2 x 9.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Date of writing from footnote to the published letter cited below.
Mourning envelope with fragments of a black seal to "R H Horne Esqr. / 2 - Gray's Inn Square / Gray's Inn."
Mourning envelope with fragments of a black seal to "R H Horne Esqr. / 2 - Gray's Inn Square / Gray's Inn."
Summary
Offering critical comments on his play [Gregory VII]; saying "Indeed it is a grand production, & one upon which I congratulate both you & our literature;" commenting on Matilda's madness" in the play and his characterization of her saying "...it w'd in my fancy, have been finer, at least more moving, - had you suffered us to look, tho' by a glance, at some heart of love before. We never guessed at such a thing. She was a cold hearted woman & a very bad wife - until she lost her senses: & we want the 'parceque' for the loss - The returning upon Gregory's words about 'wasting himself upon her' - in the madness, is very fine...Your Elizabethan fashion of malleting down your metaphors into the groundwork, produces a diction of extraordinary power - it is concentrated language."
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