The most precious judgment pronounced on George Sand is by one who was at once a true woman and a great poet.  Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning saw in her the “large-brained woman and large-hearted man...whose soul, amid the lions of her tumultuous senses, moans defiance and answers roar for roar, as spirits can”; but who lacked “the angel’s grace of a pure genius sanctified from blame.”  This is from the sonnet to George Sand, entitled “A Desire.”  In another sonnet, likewise addressed to George Sand and entitled “A Recognition,” she tells her how vain it was to deny with a manly scorn the woman’s nature...while before

   The world thou burnest in a poet-fire,
   We see thy woman-heart beat evermore
   Through the large flame.  Beat purer, heart, and higher,
   Till God unsex thee on the heavenly shore
   Where unincarnate spirits purely aspire!

End of volume I.

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