ABSTRACT

In general, we should say,—-judging by the discussion in the Prologue between Apollo and the Fates, and by the Epilogue on the inventor of printing, as well as by the drift of several of the separate poems,—that it has been Mr. Browning’s chief object to show that life is an exceedingly complex matter, in which evil and good are so indissolubly interwoven that the very thread which seems evil in one light seems good in another, and the tares seem as necessary to the wheat as the ground from which it grows.…