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BROWNING ON THE ROMANTICS ON MONT BLANC

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From: Browning Society Notes
Date: 20080401
Author:Woolford, John

In 1877 Robert Browning spent a holiday near Mont Blanc with his sister Sarianna and their friend Annie Egerton Smith, in the course of which Smith very suddenly and quite unexpectedly died. The contrast with the long-anticipated, long-postponed death of his wife in 1861 must have struck him, but it was the resemblance between the two events that produced the poem, La Saisiaz (1878), which constitutes his memorial to both in the form of a kind of intellectual elegy.1 From a description of Smith's death in the midst of the magnificent Alpine scenery Browning passes to a consideration of the ...

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