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<DIV>Silly me. Of *course*, I have an excuse. See “<EM>Aurora
Leigh</EM>” (CR2): </DIV>
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<DIV>“But fate has not been kind to Mrs Browning as a writer. Nobody reads her,
nobody discusses her, nobody troubles to put her in her place. One has only to
compare her reputation with Christina Rossetti's to trace her decline. Christina
Rossetti mounts irresistibly to the first place among English women poets.
Elizabeth, so much more loudly applauded during her lifetime, falls farther and
farther behind. The primers dismiss her with contumely. Her importance, they
say, 'has now become merely historical. Neither education nor association
with her husband ever succeeded in teaching her the value of words and a sense
of form.' In short, the only place in the mansion of literature that is assigned
her is downstairs in the servants' quarters, where, in company with Mrs Hemans,
<STRONG>Eliza Cook</STRONG>, Jean Ingelow, Alexander Smith, Edwin Arnold, and
Robert Montgomery, she bangs the crockery about and eats vast handfuls of peas
on the point of her knife.”</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com
href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">Stuart N. Clarke</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:14 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] "Becalmed in the Tropics"</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>My Woolfian researches allowed me to discover one of Lord Tennyson’s
greatest poems, “The Lord of Burleigh”, and I shared the find with this
list. No excuses this time:</DIV>
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<DIV>Many a lip is gaping for drink,</DIV>
<DIV> And madly calling for rain;</DIV>
<DIV>And some hot brains are beginning to think</DIV>
<DIV> Of a messmate’s opened vein.</DIV>
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(Eliza Cook, 1818-89)</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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