ing with ever-increasing severityfor that chastened perfection of form which standsas the last and the surest test of the presence ofsupreme poetic genius. So much cannot be said of Browning. Thereis enough and to spare in the great body of hiswork to leave his position as a poet unassailed,… … ROBERT BROWNINGFrom the painting by G. F. WATTS, R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery. Hollyer To face page 201. SOME VICTORIAN POETS 201 can give to verse its final right of survival. Thisis doubtless true also of Wordsworth, but in his casethe good and the bad are easily separable, and thegood…
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