. The life of Mrs. Norton. st links. In the early summer of 1840, a year after thepassage of the Infant Custody Bill, we find heragain before the public as a writer of graceful verse. The Dream and Other Poems was the name of thislast collection, in a fine octavo volume published byH. Colburn, Great Marlborough Street, illustrated witha portrait of herself by Landseer. The great animalpainter was not so good at human likenesses, andthough he gives the poise of her head upon hershoulders better than Hayter or Maclise succeeded indoing, the picture is not especially convincing, andis chiefly int
. The life of Mrs. Norton. st links. In the early summer of 1840, a year after thepassage of the Infant Custody Bill, we find heragain before the public as a writer of graceful verse. The Dream and Other Poems was the name of thislast collection, in a fine octavo volume published byH. Colburn, Great Marlborough Street, illustrated witha portrait of herself by Landseer. The great animalpainter was not so good at human likenesses, andthough he gives the poise of her head upon hershoulders better than Hayter or Maclise succeeded indoing, the picture is not especially convincing, andis chiefly interesting as a witness of the new-madefriendship between the painter and the poetess, afriendship still evident in the mass of clever sketchesand caricatures found among her papers with the greatmans sign across them. The principal poem of this collection, The Dream,is the same she had already offered to Murray in 1834under a slightly different name—a long, meditativepiece, narrating a young maidens dream of happiness 174. MRS. ciii engraving by F. C. Lewis, after the drawing by Sir Edwin Landseer, 174] 1840] REVIEWED BY THE QUARTERLY 175 with an ideal mate, and her mothers counsels on herapproaching marriage, in a fashion so long gone bythat it would find few readers now, in spite of the realbeauty of many of its passages. Twilight is one of her shorter poems, oftenchosen to represent her in collections of British will only mention it, therefore, as a touching bit ofautobiography, drawn from her first dreary yearswithout her children, as is also The Fever Dream,from which I have already quoted. A Destiny isanother short narrative poem. These and a fewgraceful but incorrect sonnets make up nearly allthat is new in the book, which was very favourablyreviewed in the current number of the Quarterly for1840 by Hartley Coleridge, who names its author firstof ten other British poetesses, all lost to memory nowexcept Miss Barrett, who was placed second in th
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