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The major reviews were uniformly unfavourable, and the poet had to take cold comfort from John Ruskin’s well-known praise of ‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb’, a poem first published in 1845. Writing in the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (No. 104), the young William Morris defended the poet and raised the only intelligent question of the time: ‘I wonder what the critics would have said to “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, if it had been first published by Messrs. ’ Browning’s patience was nearly at an end.

Browning decided (‘with extreme repugnance’) to include Pauline in the 1868 edition of his poems partly because his authorship had become an open secret (Dante Rossetti, indeed, had in 1847 recognized Browning’s characteristic voice in the British Museum’s copy), but also because he wanted to forestall pirated editions. 8. Orr, p. 66. 9. In return, Browning complimented Miss Haworth with the graceful lines in Sordello addressed to ‘English Eye-bright’. 10. Walter Savage Landor, Letters and Conversations, ed.

51. LEBB, 1, 432. 52. LEBB, 1, 441. INTRODUCTION 25 53. LEBB, 1,449. 54. Broughton, p. 11. 55. See Donald Smalley, ‘Joseph Arnould and Robert Browning: New Letters (1842– 50) and A Verse Epistle’, PMLA, LXXX (March 1965), 90–101. 56. Weiss’s long and enthusiastic review appeared in Massachusetts Quarterly Review, III (June 1850), 347–85. 57. ‘La Poésie anglais depuis Byron, II—Robert Browning’, Revue des deux mondes, NS XI (15 August 1851), 661–89. This perceptive and sympathetic article preluded a close friendship which ended only with Milsand’s death in 1886.

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