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The Inn Album, a dramatic poem of extraordinary power, has so much more markedly the defects of his qualities that I take it to be, at the utmost, the poise of the first gradual refluence. This analogy of the tidal ebb and flow may be observed with singular aptness in Browning's life-work--the tide that first moved shoreward in the loveliness of
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Pauline, and, with
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ebbed in slow, just perceptible lapse to the poet's penultimate volume. As for
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Asolando,
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The Inn Album as the first hesitant swing of the tide. I seem to hear the resilient undertone all through the long slow poise of
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The Ring and the Book.
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Men and Women ; and by
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Men and Women I mean not merely the poems comprised in the collection so entitled, but all in the
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Dramatic Romances,
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Lyrics, and the
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Dramatis Personæ, all the short pieces of a certain intensity of note and quality of power, to be found in the later volumes, from
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Pacchiarotto to
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Asolando.
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--an achievement, even on its secondary level, so high, that around its imperfect proportions,
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Men and Women ? How better--certainly it would be impossible to be more succinct--than by the enumeration of the contents of an imagined volume, to be called, say
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Transcripts from Life
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My Last Duchess. Then would follow
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In a Gondola, that haunting lyrical drama _in petto_, where the lover is stabbed to death as his heart is beating against that of his mistress;
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Cristina, with its keen introspection; those delightfully stirring pieces, the
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Cavalier-Tunes,
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Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr, and
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin ;
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The Flower's Name ;
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The Flight of the Duchess ;
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The Tomb at St. Praxed's, the poem which educed Ruskin's enthusiastic praise for its marvellous apprehension of the spirit of the Middle Ages;
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Pictor Ignotus, and
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The Lost Leader. But as there is not space for individual detail, and as many of the more important are spoken of elsewhere in this volume, I must take the reader's acquaintance with the poems for granted. So, following those first mentioned, there would come
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Home Thoughts from Abroad ;
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Home Thoughts from the Sea ;
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The Confessional ;
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The Heretic's Tragedy ;
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Earth's Immortalities ;
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Meeting at Night: Parting at Morning ;
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Saul ;
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Karshish ;
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A Death in the Desert ;
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Rabbi Ben Ezra ;
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A Grammarian's Funeral ;
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Love Among the Ruins ; _Song_,
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Nay but you ;
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A Lover's Quarrel ;
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Evelyn Hope ;
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A Woman's Last Word ;
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Fra Lippo Lippi ;
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By the Fireside ;
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Any Wife to Any Husband ;
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A Serenade at the Villa ;
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My Star ;
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A Pretty Woman ;
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A Light Woman ;
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Love in a Life ;
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Life in a Love ;
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The Last Ride Together ;
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A Toccata of Galuppi's ;
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Master Hugues of Saxe Gotha ;
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Abt Vogler ;
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Memorabilia ;
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Andrea Del Sarto ;
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Before ;
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After ;
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In Three Days ;
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In a Year ;
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Old Pictures in Florence ;
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De Gustibus ;
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Women and Roses ;
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The Guardian Angel ;
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Cleon ;
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Two in the Campagna ;
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One Way of Love ;
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Another Way of Love ;
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Misconceptions ;
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May and Death ;
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James Lee's Wife ;
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Dîs Aliter Visum ;
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Too Late ;
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Confessions ;
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Prospice ;
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Youth and Art ;
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A Face ;
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A Likeness ;
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Apparent Failure. Epilogue to Part I.--
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O Lyric Voice, etc., from end of First Part of
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The Ring and the Book. Part II.--
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Hervé Riel ;
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Amphibian ;
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Epilogue to Fifine ;
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Pisgah Sights ;
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Natural Magic ;
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Magical Nature ;
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Bifurcation ;
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Numpholeptos ;
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Appearances ;
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St. Martin's Summer ;
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A Forgiveness ; Epilogue to Pacchiarotto volume; Prologue to
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La Saisiaz ; Prologue to
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Two Poets of Croisic ;
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Epilogue ;
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Pheidippides ;
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Halbert and Hob ;
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Ivàn Ivànovitch ;
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Echetlos ;
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Muléykeh ;
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Pan and Luna ;
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Touch him ne'er so lightly ; Prologue to
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Jocoseria ;
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Cristina and Monaldeschi ;
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Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli ;
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Ixion ;
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Never the Time and the Place ; _Song_,
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Round us the wild creatures ; _Song_,
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Wish no word unspoken ; _Song_,
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You groped your way ; _Song_:,
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Man I am ; _Song_,
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Once I saw ;
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Verse-making ;
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Not with my Soul Love ;
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Ask not one least word of praise ;
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Why from the world ;
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The Round of Day (Pts. 9, 10, 11, 12 of Gérard de Lairesse); Prologue to
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Asolando ;
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Rosny ;
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Now ;
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Poetics ;
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Summum Bonum ;
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A Pearl ;
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Speculative ;
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Inapprehensiveness ;
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The Lady and the Painter;
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Beatrice Signorini ;
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Imperante Augusto ;
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Rephan ;
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Reverie ; Epilogue to
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Asolando