. Robert Browning . From a painting Iy Felix Moscliclcs ROBERT BROWNING, 18S4(Reproduced by kind permission of the Artist) ROBERT BROWNING 23. THE PALAZZO REZZONICO Where Robert Browning died on December 12th, 18 Collection of Augustin Rischgitz vision is uncertain. He can dissect an emotion, but he rarely communicates it. He is diabolically clever, but his cleverness destroys the charmed illusion that is the atmosphere of poetry. Probably his obscurity is due to the fact that he was struggling to express himself in a form antagonistic to his temperament. In prose Sordello might have been pell
. Robert Browning . From a painting Iy Felix Moscliclcs ROBERT BROWNING, 18S4(Reproduced by kind permission of the Artist) ROBERT BROWNING 23. THE PALAZZO REZZONICO Where Robert Browning died on December 12th, 18 Collection of Augustin Rischgitz vision is uncertain. He can dissect an emotion, but he rarely communicates it. He is diabolically clever, but his cleverness destroys the charmed illusion that is the atmosphere of poetry. Probably his obscurity is due to the fact that he was struggling to express himself in a form antagonistic to his temperament. In prose Sordello might have been pellucid, and Paracelsus clear. The sense of strain is present in all his work. His poetry is a determined stammer. The irony of his vogue lies in the passionate love which his admirers cultivated for his brilliant stuttering. Browningism was really a disease. Men and women took his poetry as a Chinaman takes opium. He was the fashionable drug of the nineteenth century. D oubtless theBrowning habit waslargely due to literarysnobbery, to that lazy lust alter tne intei- Elizabeth barrett brownings monument lectual aristocracy at Florence whic
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