A SERIES OF CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE EXTRACTS. BY ERIC S. ROBERTSON, M.A. 11 CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED: LONDON, PARIS & NEW YORK. 1883. [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] R. Brownnig's "Summum Bonum. All the Greath & the bloom of the year in the bagy one bes Truth Thats brighter than oren, Brightest Fruth, purest trust in the univers all were for me In The Kiss of one Fire! PRI ΝΟΤΕ. To Messrs. Blackwood & Son, to Messrs. George Bell & Son, and particularly to Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., I am obliged for courtesies extended with reference to copyright verses quoted in this book. The only instance in which I have not received free permission to quote has occurred in the case of Mrs. Browning's Poems. Nevertheless, it will be found that I have been able to supply my chapter on Mrs. Browning with ample illustrative extracts. It may be well for me to confess that I am aware of the objections to which the title of this book lies open. Ladies who write verse now-a-days do not care to be called "Poetesses "; yet, as they have not had the wit to find a better designation for themselves, the name must serve while I attempt a measured compliance with the invitation held out by Landor's Cleone: "You may compose a panegyric on all of our sex who have excelled in poetry." E. S. R. REDHILL, CHISLEHURST. |