I believe I ought to return more books than I do return, were it only to make you think that I have not been asleep over Landor’s. It is easier to dream than to sleep over a volume of his, and perhaps very beautiful as these are in many parts, one of my dreams is that they express coldly, and with a hard stiff stoney outline, what the Greeks were—there were living Greeks, as well as Greek stories, were there not? ...
[ca. January 1838]. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Kenyon, John.
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1838-01
Author
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Recipient
Kenyon, John
Letter Text
I believe I ought to return more books than I do return, were it only to make you think that I have not been asleep over Landor’s. It is easier to dream than to sleep over a volume of his, and perhaps very beautiful as these are in many parts, one of my dreams is that they express coldly, and with a hard stiff stoney outline, what the Greeks were—there were living Greeks, as well as Greek stories, were there not? ...