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- Title: Alfred Domett, Robert Browning and a Dream of Two Lives (Essay)
- Author : JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 202 KB
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1. The Colloquials From the late 1820s to mid 1840s the family home of Frederick and William Curling Young played host to '[a] little debating society.' (1) Chris Dowson (grandfather of Ernest) writing to his brother Joseph described it nostalgically as 'our set ... which I consider consists of Arnould, Alfred, Browning, Pritchard and ourselves. How they are all dispersed! Never I fear to be reunited in this world.' (2) 'Arnould' was Joseph Arnould, at that time training for the bar. 'Alfred' was Alfred Domett, recently returned from Canada. Browning joined in around 1840 after reading Domett's collection of poems Venice (1839), though he probably knew some of the members previously: he had been at school with Domett's brother Edward, and may have known Domett as early as 1830. Emma Young, Fred and William's sister, wrote later 'what an interesting set they were, Poets, Philosophers. Scientific--Literary all' (Young, n.p.). They referred to conversations they had--on literature, politics, religion--as 'colloquials'; the label also served as a name for the group.
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