. Robert Browning . ROBERT BROWNING, 1859 -. From the crayon draiving made in Rome by Field Tal/ourd, now in the National Po?trait Gallery Collection ofAugustinRischgitz with the great mass of half-harmonised personahties around it is not enough to have the idiosyncratic insolence yourselfin order to echo and answer the idiosyncratic insolence ot anotherman : you must also have the same sort of idiosyncratic insolence. ROBERT BROWNING ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, 1859 From the crayon draiving made in Rome by Field Talfourd, now in the National ; Portrait Gallery Collection ofAugustinRisc
. Robert Browning . ROBERT BROWNING, 1859 -. From the crayon draiving made in Rome by Field Tal/ourd, now in the National Po?trait Gallery Collection ofAugustinRischgitz with the great mass of half-harmonised personahties around it is not enough to have the idiosyncratic insolence yourselfin order to echo and answer the idiosyncratic insolence ot anotherman : you must also have the same sort of idiosyncratic insolence. ROBERT BROWNING ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, 1859 From the crayon draiving made in Rome by Field Talfourd, now in the National ; Portrait Gallery Collection ofAugustinRischgitz. What, then, is this idiosyncratic insolence of Browning ? It is,I think, his perception of that grotesque element in existencewhich is the true basis of optimism. Brownings humour is basedon the cosmic incongruity which exists between the soul of man 6 ROBERT BROWNING and the external universe—that cosmic incongruity which is atthe root of laughter. He percei^es that existence is a vast comedyof relationships, and that the relations between mans soul andthe external universe are not fixed, but fluid and plastic, being
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