# The art of scansion

Author: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861; Meynell, Alice, 1847-1922 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829 [Other]

Genre: English language -- Versification

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78519

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+art+of+scansion+Browning&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

My friend Mrs. Meynell has obliged me with a few words of introduction to this letter by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, here printed for the first time in an edition of twenty-five copies. It was written when she was twenty-one years of age, and residing at her father’s house near Ledbury in Herefordshire. She did not meet Robert Browning until nineteen years later, but her girlish enthusiasm for poetry is reflected in this letter. Her correspondent, Sir Uvedale Price (1747–1829), did not live to see her recognition as a great poet, although her _Essay on Mind_ was published when she was nineteen and her _Battle of Marathon_, published in our day, was written at the age of fourteen. Price wa...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-scansion-78519/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-scansion-78519/chapters/2/index.md)