PREFACE WHEN this book was projected, some one asked, What is there to say about Brownings heroines beyond what he said himself and the question, though it could not stay me, did chill momentarily my primal ardour. Soon, however, the restorative answer presented itself. If there were nothing to say about Brownings heroines beyond what he said him. For himself, it would be a bad mark against to suggest to open magic casements surely is the office of our artists in every sort thus, for them to say all that there is to say ...
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PREFACE WHEN this book was projected, some one asked, What is there to say about Brownings heroines beyond what he said himself and the question, though it could not stay me, did chill momentarily my primal ardour. Soon, however, the restorative answer presented itself. If there were nothing to say about Brownings heroines beyond what he said him. For himself, it would be a bad mark against to suggest to open magic casements surely is the office of our artists in every sort thus, for them to say all that there is to say about is anything to show the casement stuck fast, as it were, and themselves battering somewhat desperately to open it. Saying the things about is the other peoples function. It is as if we suddenly saw a princess come out upon her castle-walls, and hymned that fair emergence, which to herself is nothing. Browning, I think, is coming back, as stars come back. There has been the period of obscura- tion. Seventeen years ago, when the Yellow Book and the National Observer were contending for les jeunes, Browning was, in the more precious coterie, king of modern I poets. can remember the editor of that golden Quarterly reading, declaiming, quoting, almost breathing, Browning It was from Henry Harland that this reader learnt to read The Ring and the Book Leave out the lawyers and the Tertium and all after Guido until the Envoi. It Quid, was Henry Harland who would answer, him what he was thinking of And thinking too oh, thinking, if you like, How utterly dissociated was I. . . . if one asked regardless of all aptitude in the allusion, making it simply because it burned up in his brain, just as days struck fierce mid many a day struck calm were always his days of excitement.... A hundred Browning verses sing themselves around my memories of the flat in Cromwell Road. Misconceptions was swung forth with gesture that figured swaying branches This is a spray the bird clung to. . . . You were to notice how the rhythms bent and tossed like boughs in that first stanza and to notice, also, how regrettable the second stanza was. Nor shall I easily let slip the memory of Apparent Failure, thus recited. He would begin at the second verse, the Doric little Morgue verse. You were not to miss the great phrase in The three men who did most abhor Their lives in Paris yesterday. . . . but you were to feel, scarce less keenly, the dire descent to bathos in So killed themselves. It was almost the show-example, he would tell you, of Brownings chief defect over-statement. How did it happen, my poor boy You wanted to be Bonaparte, And have the Tuileries for toy, And could not, so it broke your heart. . . . How compassionately he would give that forth A screen of glass, youre thankful for Be quiet, and unclench your fist Poor men God made, and all for this the phrases how alert we were for the phrase in those days would fall grave and vibrant from the voice with its subtle foreign colouring you could always infuriate H. H. by telling him he had a foreign accent. Those were Browning days and now these are, or soon shall be. Two or three years since, to quote him was, in the opinion of a Standard reviewer, to write yourself down a back-number, as they say. I preserve the cutting which damns with faint praise some thus antiquated short stories of 1910. Browning and Wagner were so obso- lete . . . How young that critic must have been so young that he had never seen a star return.Quite differently they come back or is it quite the same Soon we shall be able to judge, for this star is returning, and oh wonder x BROWNINGS HEROINES is trailing clouds of glory of the very newest cut...
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