XIII. WOMANHOOD IN BROWNING

XIV. WOMANHOOD IN BROWNING--(THE DRAMATIC LYRICS AND POMPILIA)

XV. BALAUSTION

XVI. THE RING AND THE BOOK

XVII. LATER POEMS

XVIII. THE LAST POEMS

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The publishers are indebted to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. on behalf
of the owner of the copyright for their permission to make extracts
from copyright poems for use in this volume

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CHAPTER I

_BROWNING AND TENNYSON_


Parnassus, Apollo's mount, has two peaks, and on these, for sixty years,
from 1830 to 1890,[1] two poets sat, till their right to these lofty