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Poetical Works of Robert Browning, M.A., Honorary Fellow of Baliol College, Oxford, were issued in six volumes. Here the equator of Browning's genius may be drawn. On the further side lie the
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Men and Women of the period anterior to
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The Ring and the Book : midway is the transitional zone itself: on the hither side are the
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Men and Women
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The Ring and the Book was not published till November. In September the poet was staying with his sister and son at Le Croisic, a picturesque village at the mouth of the Loire, at the end of the great salt plains which stretch down from Guérande to the Bay of Biscay. No doubt, in lying on the sand-dunes in the golden September glow, in looking upon the there somewhat turbid current of the Loire, the poet brooded on those days when he saw its inland waters with her who was with him no longer save in dreams and memories. Here he wrote that stirring poem,
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Hervé Riel, founded upon the valorous action of a French sailor who frustrated the naval might of England, and claimed nothing as a reward save permission to have a holiday on land to spend a few hours with his wife,
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Hervé Riel (which has been translated into French, and is often recited, particularly in the maritime towns, and is always evocative of enthusiastic applause) is one of Browning's finest action-lyrics, and is assured of the same immortality as
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How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, or the
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Pied Piper
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Men and Women,
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Dramatis Personæ, and
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Dramatic Romances, besides the longer
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Soul's Tragedy,
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Luria,
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In a Balcony, and
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Christmas Eve and Easter Day --the most Christian poem of the century, according to one eminent cleric, the heterodox self-sophistication of a free-thinker, according to another: really, the reflex of a great crisis, that of the first movement of the tide of religious thought to a practically limitless freedom. This edition also contained
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Bishop Blougram,