Robert Browning . i^m^ I 1^ rtff^m rilK IALA/ZO KK//.UMLUWhere Robert Browning died on December 12th, lECollection of Augustin Rischgitz express himseh in a form antagonistic to his temperament. In prose • Sordello might have been pellucid, and Paracelsus clear. Tlie sense of strain is present in all his work. His poetry is a determined stanuner. The irony of his vogue lies in the passionate love wliich his admirers culti\ated for his brilliant stuttering. Browningism was really a disease. jNlen and women took liis poetry as a Chinaman takes opium. He was the fashionable drug of the nineteenth
Robert Browning . i^m^ I 1^ rtff^m rilK IALA/ZO KK//.UMLUWhere Robert Browning died on December 12th, lECollection of Augustin Rischgitz express himseh in a form antagonistic to his temperament. In prose • Sordello might have been pellucid, and Paracelsus clear. Tlie sense of strain is present in all his work. His poetry is a determined stanuner. The irony of his vogue lies in the passionate love wliich his admirers culti\ated for his brilliant stuttering. Browningism was really a disease. jNlen and women took liis poetry as a Chinaman takes opium. He was the fashionable drug of the nineteenth centiuv. I)oul)tless theBrowning habit waslargely due to literarysnobbery, to that lazy lust aitei tlie mtei- Elizabeth barrett brownings monument lectua 1 aristocracy at Florence which flourishes in collection of Augustin Rischgitz. 24 ROBERT BROWNING
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