[Vwoolf] "Becalmed in the Tropics"

[Stuart N. Clarke]

Silly me.  Of *course*, I have an excuse.  See “Aurora Leigh” (CR2): 

“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, Eliza Cook, 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.”

Stuart

From: Stuart N. Clarke 
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:14 PM
To: woolf list 
Subject: [Vwoolf] "Becalmed in the Tropics"

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:

Many a lip is gaping for drink,
    And madly calling for rain;
And some hot brains are beginning to think
    Of a messmate’s opened vein.

                (Eliza Cook, 1818-89)

Stuart


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