. Robert Browning . From a photograph by Ftadelie and Young. ROBERT BROWNING ROBERT BRO\¥NmG. visible to man not only aswhat they are and as whatthey might be, but also aswhat they ought to out from the centralinsolence of egoism manlaughs (or weeps) at thecomedy (or tragedy) of cos-mic incongruity. Browningis the laureate of cosmicincongruity, the singer ofthe central laughter of thecentral soul. Call that laugh-ter what you will, it is inits essence spiritual, and theabsolute antithesis of thelaughter of the cynic, whichindeed is not true laughterat all, but a kind of miser-able c
. Robert Browning . From a photograph by Ftadelie and Young. ROBERT BROWNING ROBERT BRO\¥NmG. visible to man not only aswhat they are and as whatthey might be, but also aswhat they ought to out from the centralinsolence of egoism manlaughs (or weeps) at thecomedy (or tragedy) of cos-mic incongruity. Browningis the laureate of cosmicincongruity, the singer ofthe central laughter of thecentral soul. Call that laugh-ter what you will, it is inits essence spiritual, and theabsolute antithesis of thelaughter of the cynic, whichindeed is not true laughterat all, but a kind of miser-able counterfeit. This temper, this spiritualgrotesquerie, is, as I have said, absolutely new in our poetry,and it is idle to pursue irrelevant analogies between it and thegrotesquerie of Swift, Butler, Barham, Hood, Lear, and LewisCarroll. But although it is new, it is, 1 think, a direct outcomeof the great literary revival which Mr. A^^atts-Dunton has called the renascence of wonder. The poets of wonder, Blake,Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, and Tennyson, fed theirspiritual astonishmen
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