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Not all Victorian poets, of course, were so profoundly influenced by Italy as Browning. Tennyson is the obvious contrast. His friend Hallam, commemorated in In Memoriam, had been an early visitor to the graves of Keats and Shelley in 1827–8 and a pioneering admirer of the early Italian painters, whom he praised in his Oration at Trinity College, Cambridge in December, 1831, a stimulating survey of the influence of Italian models on English literature, which argues the value of comparative literary studies, and is full of admiration for Dante. Despite sharing this enthusiasm for Dante, claiming Garibaldi as a friend, and having an elder brother, Frederick, who married an Italian and lived for twenty years in Florence, where he knew the Brownings and occasionally produced mediocre verses on Italian subjects, Tennyson’s visit to Italy in 1851 produced a solitary poem on that very English flower, The Daisy, while, according to Browning,
after he got to Florence, on his way to Rome, he was so disquieted because he could not find a particular tobacco he liked that he turned back to England and never went to Rome.1
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Letter of W. W. Story, quoting Browning, in H. James, William Wetmore Story & His Friends, vol. i (London, 1903) p. 270.
G. W. E. Russell (cd.), Letters of Matthew Arnold, vol. i (London, 1895) p. 277.
Quoted in G. B. Taplin, Life of E. B. Browning (London, 1957) p. 452, n. 27.
See H. W. Rudman, Italian.Nationalism & English Letters (London, 1940);
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See E. Greenberger, Arthur Hugh Clough: The Growth of A Poet’s Mind (Cambridge, Mass, 1970).
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Lucretia Borgia ed. R. Hughes (London, 1942) pp. 57–8.
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Churchill, K. (1980). The other Victorian Poets. In: Italy and English Literature 1764–1930. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04642-3_9
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