Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), December 13, 1845, vol. 2, no. 23, p. ???, col. ?

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Francis & Co's Cabinet Library of Choice Prose and Poetry. Nos. 3 and 4. The Dream and other Poems. By the Hon. MRS. NORTON — and The Child of the Islands, by the Hon. MRS. NORTON.

Mrs Norton is emphatically the poet of passion — even more so than Byron. No single poem ever so powerfully affected us as “The Dying Hour,” included in No. 3 of this series. The effect, however, is in no respect a properly poetical one, and the same sentiments in prose would have produced an intenser passionate effect. We will endeavor to make ourselves more distinctly understood on this topic hereafter. Of course we admit the high powers of Mrs. Norton as a poetess — even in the most legitimate acceptation of the term.