+ + – Outlook. 84: 426. O. 20, ’06. 400w.
Kenyon, Frederic George, ed. Robert Browning and Alfred Domett. **$1.50. Dutton.
The friendship of Robert Browning and Alfred Domett, the “Waring” of his poem, is here revealed thru letters written by the poet to Domett in New Zealand. “Written chiefly during the years 1840–1846, they cover a period of Browning’s life of which little has been made public—the period just preceding his marriage, while he was living at New Cross, writing and publishing serially his ‘Bells and pomegranates.’... This collection of letters, though small, revealing a masculine friendship surviving the strain of separation of years, and of divided interests, helps to make an impression of a character which becomes the more exalted as it is better known. Portraits of Browning, of Domett, and of Sir Joseph Arnould (a third in this trio of Camberwell friends) illustrate the volume.” (Dial.)
“Admirably edited.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 358. Mr. 24. 410w. + Dial. 40: 395. Je. 16, ’06. 330w. Lit. D. 32: 937. Je. 23, ’06. 1130w. + Lond. Times. 5: 106, Mr. 23, ’06. 620w. + Nation. 83: 43. Jl. 12, ’06. 740w.
“They give a glimpse of an eager and generous nature, and show, too, somewhat of what Browning was thinking and feeling of his literary contemporaries in the early forties. For these letters of the early forties, with the light they throw on Browning’s personality, his admirers will be grateful.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 317. My. 19, ’06. 1050w.
“Not a little interesting criticism is scattered up and down the letters, interesting but a little eccentric.”
+ Spec. 96: 625. Ap. 21, ’06. 370w.