...principle, as he laid it down in the dedication to Bordello. " The historical decoration," he says, " was purposely of no more importance than a background...a soul : little else is worth study. I, at least, have always thought so ... others may one day think so." This is just what Pope put plainly when he...

...in Herbert's poetry. He might well say with Browning, whom in many respects he strongly resembles, "My stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul; little else is worth study." But it is when Herbert turns to man's side of the great alliance, to man's wavering yet inevitable...

...lunatic, and even he did not pretend to understand it. In a dedication written in 1863 Browning says : "The historical decoration was purposely of no more...in the development of a soul : little else is worth stndy." Between 1842 and 1846 Mr. Browning published a series of dramatic and lyric poems, under the...

...who had been one of his earliest admirers : — ' I wrote it twenty-five years ago for a few . . . My stress lay on the incidents in the development...else is worth study ; I at least always thought so. My own faults of expression were many ; but with care for a man or book such would be surmounted, and...

...gave time and pains to turn my work into what the many might,—instead of what the few must,—like : but after all, I imagined another thing at first,...little else is worth study. I, at least, always thought so—you, with many known and unknown to me, think so— others may one day think so ; and whether...

...least of all myself, who did my best then and since ; for I lately gave time and pains to turn my work1 into what the many might, — instead of what the...development of a soul : little else is worth study. /, at least, always thought so — you, with many known and unknown to me, think so — others may...

...In the dedication of " Sordello," written twenty-five years after the poem itself, Browning says, " The historical decoration was purposely of no more...development of a soul ; little else is worth study." And at the end of this Ring and Pool: he writes, — So did this old woe fade from memory, Till after,...

...farthest ebb. When Browning himself says in his dedication to Sordello (dated twenty-two years back), " my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul ; little else is worth study," wo may at first sight tako it that ho has set himself that vast field to cultivate, and only that ;...

...of Hamelin and Ghent— which were outside his ordinary range of interest, wide as that was. " lly stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul; little else is worth study." These words from the dedication to the reprint of Sordello—itself the key to all Browning's more...

...Combining these words;.wUh lhose in the Foretalk to the revisd text of Sordello in 1863, — " iny.'sttxjss lay on the incidents in the development of a soul : little else is'wtfrtti study. I, at least, always thought so," — one sees why Browning^ Kas^in almost all his...