. Robert Browning . From the fainting by Rudolf Lthinann in ilie National Portrait CalicrvROHERT iJROWNIXf;, 1879(Reproduced by kind permission 01 the Artist; ROBERT BROWNING 15. THE VIEW FROM BROWNINGS WINDOW AT NO. 19, WARWICK CRESCENT assaults of time. Therefore, although Brownings verbal obscurityvnR accelerate his decay, the true cause of that decay is his con-tempt for ^erbal form. Browning, said Tennyson, never greatlycares about the glory of words or beauty of form : he has told methat the world must take him as it finds him. He has plenty ofmusic in him, but he cannot get it out. Poet
. Robert Browning . From the fainting by Rudolf Lthinann in ilie National Portrait CalicrvROHERT iJROWNIXf;, 1879(Reproduced by kind permission 01 the Artist; ROBERT BROWNING 15. THE VIEW FROM BROWNINGS WINDOW AT NO. 19, WARWICK CRESCENT assaults of time. Therefore, although Brownings verbal obscurityvnR accelerate his decay, the true cause of that decay is his con-tempt for ^erbal form. Browning, said Tennyson, never greatlycares about the glory of words or beauty of form : he has told methat the world must take him as it finds him. He has plenty ofmusic in him, but he cannot get it out. Poets who cannot gettheir music out may make a deep mark on their own age by theforce of personality, but they will not live. Byron is the supremeexample of this law. His wit, his rhetoric, his lucidity are power-less without style. So it will be with Browning, whose subtle brainwasted its titanic powers because he cared nothing for the gloryof words. So it will be with ]\Ir. Kipling, whose cockney versesin fifty years will be less intelhgible than Chaucer. Keats, with 16 ROBERT BROWNING
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