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New Poems by Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Frederick G. KenyonReview by: Harriet MonroePoetry, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Apr., 1915), p. 47Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20570361 .
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our frontier life through a romantic period. They are mas terpieces of familiar modern balladry-we wish we had space to quote them. H. M.
Bread and Circuses, by Helen Parry Eden. John Lane.
This is a book of engaging light verse, which might be rec
omimended safely to those two fellow-citizens, Eugene Field, of happy memory, and our present autocrat of the breakfast
table, Bert Leston Taylor. Like these two, this poet is not only a deft weaver of gay rhymes but something more. She
has their gift of making friends for us, of presenting live peo
ple in her poems; and, like them and certain greater poets,
she can say, now and then, grave things with a smile.
New Poems, by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett
Browning. Edited by Sir Frederick G. Kenyon. With two portraits. Macmillan.
It may be questioned whetl-her the last rags of verse, wisely discarded by the living poet, should be published to encumber the works of the dead. Yet, as few editors have the discretion,
or indeed the power, to burn them, perhaps only the poet is to blame for not doing so himself. It becomes the duty of
erudition to take note of them, and new editions of Collected
Works must be published to include them. Most of these thirty-five poems and fragments were found
among the papers of the late Robert Barrett Browning after
his death, and, with other manuscripts and effects of the two
poets, were sold by auction in London in May, 1913. H. M.
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