Robert Browning . )odycan explain * I^a lielle Dame Sans INlerci, one of the most obscurepoems in literature, yet its ^•erbal glamour protects it against all the 1 ? ^^ ^W^l^^^^^^^m H| H^-^e- ^^^e^^^^^H K J 5^.:- r^y-j. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Bpi^^^^^^^iil^H H^ ^^M ^^I^^BMilil ^Bl mkJ/m //;ii; hy Rudolf J-chniann in l/:c Nutional Poitiait CalkivROhERT liKOWNING, 1879(Reproduced by kind ijerjiiissioii 01 the Artist) HOHKirr {()\\ XIXG 15. I Hi \\l w M (i\l l;l<iW MXdS WINDOW AT NO. iq, WARWICK CRESCENT assaults of time. riR-retorc. althouoii Hi-s \crl)al obsc-iiritxwill accelerate his decay, tli
Robert Browning . )odycan explain * I^a lielle Dame Sans INlerci, one of the most obscurepoems in literature, yet its ^•erbal glamour protects it against all the 1 ? ^^ ^W^l^^^^^^^m H| H^-^e- ^^^e^^^^^H K J 5^.:- r^y-j. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Bpi^^^^^^^iil^H H^ ^^M ^^I^^BMilil ^Bl mkJ/m //;ii; hy Rudolf J-chniann in l/:c Nutional Poitiait CalkivROhERT liKOWNING, 1879(Reproduced by kind ijerjiiissioii 01 the Artist) HOHKirr {()\\ XIXG 15. I Hi \\l w M (i\l l;l<iW MXdS WINDOW AT NO. iq, WARWICK CRESCENT assaults of time. riR-retorc. althouoii Hi-s \crl)al obsc-iiritxwill accelerate his decay, tlic true cause of that decay is his con-tenipt for \er})al fonu. •• Hi-()\vniui>. said Tenuyson. •• !ie\ cr urcatlxcares ahout the i>l()i-y of woixis or beauty of form : he lias told methat the woild must take him as it huds him. lie has })lciit\- ofmusic in him. l)ut he eaimot oet it out. Poets who cannot i>-ettheir nuisic out ma\- make a deei) mark on theii- own am h\- theforce M personality. l)ut they will not li\c. H\ ron is the supicmeexample of this law. His wit. his rheloi-ic. his hu-iditx are |)ower-less without style. So it will he with Hrowiiino. whose suhtle hrainwasted its titanic powci-s hecause he cai-ed nothiiiii foi- the oloryof words. So it will he witii Mi-. Kiplinu-. ^\ll()se eoeknev versesin hftv years will he less intellioihle than Chaucer. Keats, with 16 robp:rt broavning
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