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The Brownings: Their Life and Art

The Brownings: Their Life and Art

Whiting, Lilian

Paperback

Letters & EssaysFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1517445000
ISBN13: 9781517445003
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 21 2015
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.36 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Excerpt from The Brownings: Their Life and Art
The present volume was initiated in Florence, and, from its first inception, invested with the cordial assent and the sympathetic encouragement of Robert Barrett Browning. One never-to-be-forgotten day, all ethereal light and loveliness, has left its picture in memory, when, in company with Mr. Browning and his life-long friend, the Marchesa Peruzzi di' Medici (nata Story), the writer of this biography strolled with them under the host's orange trees and among the riotous roses of his Florentine villa, La Torre All' Antella, listening to their sparkling conversation, replete with fascinating reminiscences. To Mr. Browning the tribute of thanks, whose full scope is known to the Recording Angel alone, is here offered; and there is the blending of both privilege and duty in grateful acknowledgements to Messrs. Smith, Elder, & Company for their courtesy in permitting the somewhat liberal drawing on their published Letters of both the Brownings, on which reliance had to be based in any effort to Call up the buried Past again, and construct the story, from season to season, so far as might be, of that wonderful interlude of the wedded life of the poets.

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