Show them estr altalo d eleni nM in poetry thourl cje quality and range ot her vf re deep generous and wide barrett browning cannot be describe d it language Is to be used accurate as occupying a place among the af pf jets justly designated great in no tongue hitherto has any female arm er attained to that supreme alor i and were this the appropriate mo which it la not atwould perhaps je possible to explain why no woman Is 1 kely ever to do so a few female writers are in effect in abe front of novelist but prose romance Is one thing and poetry quite another and bere Is a chasm between them nor does the circumstance of novels being in this age more popular than poetry affect in any degree the inherent and immutable difference ellzabeth barrett browning a as aurora leigh notwithstanding essentially and al most exclusively a lyrical poet it n be easy to add almost indefinitely to illustrations of her being one of those who learn in suffering what they teach in song not one of the greater poets who pass through that esi crici but end by getting beyond it yustin at unveiling of a bu it of mrs browning |