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Ba’s clothes and even hairstyle may disguise crooked shoulders or a humped back. But no contemporary mention of any such deformity survives. Anne Buchanan, Ellen Buchanan Weiss, ‘Of Sad and Wished-For Years: Ba Barrett Browning’s lifelong illness’ in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine vol. 54, no. 4 (Autumn 2011), pp. 479–503. ‘Honokiol and magnolol have been identified as modulators of the GABA(A) receptors in vitro (Squires et al. 1999, Ai et al., 2001)’: Jiri Patocka, Jiri Jakl, and Anna Strunecka, ‘Expectations of biologically active compounds of the genus Magnolia in biomedicine’ in Journal of Applied Biomedicine vol. 4 (2006), pp. 171–78, p. 174. J. K. Crellin, Jane Philpott, A. L. Tommie Bass, Herbal Medicine Past and Present: A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1990), pp. 75, 182, 352–53. EBB’s triggers also match those for ME, rheumatoid arthritis and opportunistic infections.

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Today, clinicians sometimes diagnose remotely or collaboratively or by remote video examination.

‘The suffering is agony…’ SD389.1.

SECOND FRAME

Emmanuel Levinas, trans. Alphonso Lingis, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Duquesne University Press, 1969), p. 297.

BOOK THREE

Epigraph

AL Bk 8, Ll. 830–32.

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Since 1576 sexual activity with ‘any woman child under the age of ten years’ has been viewed legally as more heinous. Stephen Robertson, ‘Age of Consent Laws’ in Children and Youth in History no. 230, http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/230 [retrieved 9 September 2018].

Septimus is born 11 February 1822. Birthday poems arrive from Mamma, Henrietta and Arabella. Henrietta MB to EBB 6 March 1822, #154.

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EBB, Diary 1831–32; 6 July 1831.

AL Bk 1, Ll. 578, 581–88, 594–95, 600.

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‘Conversed, read, studied…’ EBB, ‘My Character and Bro’s Compared’. ‘George & Stormy…’ Mary MB to EBB 5 July 1824, #195.

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Henrietta MB to Mary MB 1 May 1822, SD430.

‘My dear Miss Bazy…’ Edward MB to EBB 2 November 1822, #169. ‘M is also cut off…’ Edward MB to EBB 22 June 1823, #186. Emotional support: Edward MB to EBB 17 June 1822, #158. EMB to EBB 18 June 1822, #159.

Treppy’s postscript says Bro is ‘melancholy’, suffering from ‘the disease of Silence’ and missing EBB. Charterhouse is still near Smithfield Market, London. ‘For the third time I have come home by myself without poor Sam, he stopped on account of having been reported irregular.’ Edward MB to EBB 22 February 1823, #174. ‘Those hundred lines…’ Edward MB to EBB 10 November 1824, #204.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais, st. VIII, Ll. 1–3.

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‘Very much in love…’ EBB, ‘Untitled Essay’. ‘Silver remember…’ Edward MB to EBB 26 March 1825, #217.

‘Who should walk in but little Tommy Cooky, he had a dish of tea with us and said the reason he had come to town was that during his illness a gentleman had given him a carriage & he had come to see about it.’ Edward MB to EBB 20 June 1822, #160.

‘Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron’ in The Globe and Traveller no. 6733 (30 June 1824). The form requires unusually sustained work with rhyme: ABABBCBCC makes it hard to find rhymes and keep word choice lively. It also requires the ninth line of each stanza to break out of pentameter and make an alexandrine – that is, to have an extra metrical foot.

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Mary MB to EBB 5 July 1824, #195.

Cf. ‘The Tempest’, ‘A Sea-Side Meditation’, ‘Life and Death’, ‘To a Poet’s Child’.

Charles Knight is the newly fashionable publisher of Knight’s Quarterly, ‘If Knight delays giving you an answer soon I would beg Sam to remove your Poem into some other hand.’ Edward B MB to EBB 16 August 1825, #220.

The Jewish Expositor, produced by the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews, publishes one of Elizabeth’s poems in January.

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In Greek mythology, the Pierian spring is the Macedonian fount of knowledge and playground of infant muses. EBB, An Essay on Mind Bk II, Ll. 908–11, 914–15 and Notes to Bk II (i). For more on Irving, see http://ebbarchive.org/poems/who_art_thou_of_the_veiled_countenance.php [retrieved 9 January 2019].

‘Along the banks of the Danube…’ EBB, ‘Untitled Essay’.

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EBB to Edward B MB c.March 1821, #119.

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Coventry Patmore, ‘The Dean’s Consent’ in The Angel in the House, 1854, Ll. 65–66.

McSwiney matriculated at St Patrick’s Maynooth, and the likelihood is that his MA in Classics is from the college.

‘Miss Sauce-box…’ Edward MB and Daniel McSwiney to EBB 18 March 1821, #125. McSwiney teases EBB that ‘instead of eulogizing my recent Heroism you […] assimilate it to the most ordinary rencontre among ordinary men’. EBB to Samuel MB 16 June 1814, #16; EBB to Samuel MB November 1818, #77; McSwiney ‘does not quite detest a glass of wine’ in EBB’s unpublished poem ‘Visions’ dated 17 January 1819, Reconstruction, D1097.

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John Kenyon to EBB 12 July 1826, #237.

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William Gilpin, An Essay on the Picturesque (London: J. Robson, 1794).

Gilpin first articulated the idea in 1768 in his at the time anonymous Essay on Prints. His identity was revealed in the third edition: William Gilpin, An Essay on Prints (London: R. Blamire, 1781). In the French tradition, ‘The ground is like the canvas of the picture’ according to C. H. Watelet in 1774 in Essay on Gardens: A Chapter in the French Picturesque (republished Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvannia Press, 2003). See also Réné Girardin, An Essay on Landscape (London, 1783).

Another friend of Price is fellow Herefordian exponent Richard Payne Knight of Downton Castle, in the north of the county.

William Wordsworth, ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798’, Ll. 15–19. AL, Bk 1, Ll. 594–600.

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Sir Uvedale Price to EBB 1 July 1826, #236.

EBB Diary, 7 June 1831.

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Papa’s verdict: ‘Untitled Essay’ 4 February 1827: ‘ “I advise you to burn the wretched thing.” […] I have hardly ever been mortified as I was mortified last night—but perhaps this also will do me good.’

‘I regret…’ EBB to Hugh Stuart Boyd 2 March 1827, #253. Boyd was born 23