The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 29

Browning's Inn Album

Browning's Inn Album.

This last work of Browning's is, like all his other books, a tissue of obscure, quasi-metaphysical rhapsody. Browning is verily, no poet.

I've heard, great characters require a fall
Of fortune to show greatness by uprise:
They touch the ground to jollily rebound.
So as world-repute
Preceded the illustrious stranger.
What I am, what I am not, in the the eye
Of the world, is what I never cared for much.