between Apollo and the Fates: concluded by Another between
John Fust and his Friends. 339


NOTE 363

BIBLIOGRAPHY 365

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BROWNING'S WORKS 395

INDEX TO FIRST LINES OF POEMS 411

INDEX 417




HANDBOOK TO BROWNING'S WORKS

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS.

THE NATURE OF MR. BROWNING'S GENIUS.


If we were called upon to describe Mr. Browning's poetic genius in one
phrase, we should say it consisted of an almost unlimited power of
imagination exerted upon real things; but we should have to explain that
with Mr. Browning the real includes everything which a human being can
think or feel, and that he is realistic only in the sense of being never
visionary; he never deals with those vague and incoherent fancies, so