BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). Autograph letter signed ('Your privy councillor EBB') to R.H. Horne, n.p., 13 December 1843, explaining why poetry should not be compared with the other arts, 'because Poetry contains them all ... & thus for a poet to prefer being a musician (even in the great composing sense) is an inconsequence of reason', referring to Orion [Horne's epic poem published in 1843] as 'composition in the manner of Beethoven, who was a poet if ever there was one', expressing her pleasure that he had procured a portrait of Tennyson, giving her impressions of Monckton Milnne's poetry, 'I admired his first volume very much - but his later poetry seems to me to want fire & imagination', and scorning the reputation of [John Edmund] Reade, 'I am not "a good hater" - have not I do assure you ... a single personal animosity in the world - & also I am tolerably good-tempered - that is - I never threw the chairs about the room in a passion since I was eleven years old ... it is easy for me to comprehend that your friend, albeit a foe of mine, is one of the most amiable & cultivated men in the world ... my objection however to certain volumes, is not so much that they are Mr. Reade's, as that they ARE NOT HIS', 6½ pages, 12mo, with addressed envelope. annotated by Horne.Elizabeth Barrett Browning was assisting Horne at this time with the compilation of A New Spirit of the Age, a collection of critical essays on distinguished contemporaries illustrated with portraits, published in 1844. Reade was a novelist with 'a remarkable capacity for plagiarism' (DNB).The letter is published with some works, and the final paragraph, omitted, in S.R. Townsend Mayer (ed.), Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning addressed to Richard Hengist Horne, 1877, Vol.I, pp.200-205.

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). Autograph letter signed ('Your privy councillor EBB') to R.H. Horne, n.p., 13 December 1843, explaining why poetry should not be compared with the other arts, 'because Poetry contains them all ... & thus for a poet to prefer being a musician (even in the great composing sense) is an inconsequence of reason', referring to Orion [Horne's epic poem published in 1843] as 'composition in the manner of Beethoven, who was a poet if ever there was one', expressing her pleasure that he had procured a portrait of Tennyson, giving her impressions of Monckton Milnne's poetry, 'I admired his first volume very much - but his later poetry seems to me to want fire & imagination', and scorning the reputation of [John Edmund] Reade, 'I am not "a good hater" - have not I do assure you ... a single personal animosity in the world - & also I am tolerably good-tempered - that is - I never threw the chairs about the room in a passion since I was eleven years old ... it is easy for me to comprehend that your friend, albeit a foe of mine, is one of the most amiable & cultivated men in the world ... my objection however to certain volumes, is not so much that they are Mr. Reade's, as that they ARE NOT HIS', 6½ pages, 12mo, with addressed envelope. annotated by Horne. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was assisting Horne at this time with the compilation of A New Spirit of the Age, a collection of critical essays on distinguished contemporaries illustrated with portraits, published in 1844. Reade was a novelist with 'a remarkable capacity for plagiarism' (DNB). The letter is published with some works, and the final paragraph, omitted, in S.R. Townsend Mayer (ed.), Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning addressed to Richard Hengist Horne, 1877, Vol.I, pp.200-205.

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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). Autograph letter signed ('Your privy councillor EBB') to R.H. Horne, n.p., 13 December 1843, explaining why poetry should not be compared with the other arts, 'because Poetry contains them all ... & thus for a poet to prefer being a musician (even in the great composing sense) is an inconsequence of reason', referring to Orion [Horne's epic poem published in 1843] as 'composition in the manner of Beethoven, who was a poet if ever there was one', expressing her pleasure that he had procured a portrait of Tennyson, giving her impressions of Monckton Milnne's poetry, 'I admired his first volume very much - but his later poetry seems to me to want fire & imagination', and scorning the reputation of [John Edmund] Reade, 'I am not "a good hater" - have not I do assure you ... a single personal animosity in the world - & also I am tolerably good-tempered - that is - I never threw the chairs about the room in a passion since I was eleven years old ... it is easy for me to comprehend that your friend, albeit a foe of mine, is one of the most amiable & cultivated men in the world ... my objection however to certain volumes, is not so much that they are Mr. Reade's, as that they ARE NOT HIS', 6½ pages, 12mo, with addressed envelope. annotated by Horne.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was assisting Horne at this time with the compilation of A New Spirit of the Age, a collection of critical essays on distinguished contemporaries illustrated with portraits, published in 1844. Reade was a novelist with 'a remarkable capacity for plagiarism' (DNB).

The letter is published with some works, and the final paragraph, omitted, in S.R. Townsend Mayer (ed.), Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning addressed to Richard Hengist Horne, 1877, Vol.I, pp.200-205.