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"Letter from Eliza Cook to Charlotte Cushman",,"Cook praises Cushman for her part of Bianca in Milman's tragedy <em>Fazio</em>.<br />It is republished in <em><i>Eliza Cook’s Journal</i></em> on May 21, 1853.<br />
<h3><strong>Credit</strong></h3>
<a href=""https://www.loc.gov/"">Library of Congress</a>, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.","Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889","LoC, CCP 10: 2972",,,,,,,,Reference,0330,,"<p><span>[2972] To Miss Cushman<br />On seeing her play ""Bianca"" in<br />Milman's tragedy of ""Fazio""<br />I thought thee wondrous when thy<br />soul pourtrayed<br />The youth Verona bragged of; and the love<br />Of glowing, Southern blood, by thee was made<br />enthrancing as the breath of orange grove<br />I felt the spirit of the great was thine:<br />In the rapt Boy's devotion and despair<br />I know thou wert a pilgrim at the shrine<br />Where God's high ministers alone repair<br />No rote learned sighing filled thy doting moans,<br />Thy grief was heavy, as thy joy was light;<br />Passion and Poesy were in thy tones,<br />and mind flashed forth in its electric might <br />I had seen many ""fret and strut their hour"";<br />But my brain never had become such slave<br />To Fiction, as it did beneath thy power,<br />Nor owned such homage as to thee it gave</span></p>
<p><span>[2972 reverse] I did not think thou could'st arouse<br />a throb<br />Of deeper, stronger, beating in my heart,<br />I did not deem thou could'st awake the +++<br />Of chocking fulness, and convulsive stars[?]<br />But thy pale madness, and thy gasping<br /></span><span>That breathed the torture of Bianca's part[?]<br />Oh, never would my bosom ask to know<br />Such sad and better sympathy again!<br />When the wife's anguish sears thy hope<br />check,<br />Let crowds behold and Land thee as thy +++<br />But this poor breast, is shunning what<br />they seek,<br />May yield perchance a richer tribute<br />still<br />Eliza Cook</span></p>",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889","Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"<p>Easley, Merril, etc.:</p>
<p>Published poem, most famous</p>
<p>Promotion of performance</p>
<p>“well timed” (38) -&gt; just shortly before a new tour of CC in UK</p>
<p></p>",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"admirers,press coverage","https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/8b139f739ffb85148386b71820258929.pdf,https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/1f215b1b06eb276f20c931188bb4ae64.pdf",Poem,Cushmania,1,0