. Robert Browning . THLPIED FI PER OF-HAMEUN. BROWNINGis the mostidiosyncratic poetin English Utera-ture. His poetryis his from hispersonality hispoetry can hardlybe said to poets tingepoetry withtheir personality;Browning tingeshis personalitywith poetry. Takeeven our greatestpoet, Shakespeare, and try to subti-act from his work the portion whichis coloured by his personality. The bulk of his work would from the work of Milton, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, andTennyson that part which is dyed by idiosyncrasy, and the greatbody of it would be left. Bu
. Robert Browning . THLPIED FI PER OF-HAMEUN. BROWNINGis the mostidiosyncratic poetin English Utera-ture. His poetryis his from hispersonality hispoetry can hardlybe said to poets tingepoetry withtheir personality;Browning tingeshis personalitywith poetry. Takeeven our greatestpoet, Shakespeare, and try to subti-act from his work the portion whichis coloured by his personality. The bulk of his work would from the work of Milton, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, andTennyson that part which is dyed by idiosyncrasy, and the greatbody of it would be left. But subtract from Brownings work thepart which is dyed by idiosyncrasy, and what remains ? Very most poets personality expresses itself in verbal manner ormannerism, and not in the spiritual fibre of their poetry ; but thepoetry of Browning is in its very essence idiosyncratic. It is truethat his personality expresses itself superficially in verbal mannerand mannerism, but in his poetry the idiosyncrasy of mannerand mannerism is only
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