ABSTRACT
Mr. Browning seems to have forgotten that the medium of art must ever be the beautiful; he seems to be totally indifferent to pleasing our imagination and fancy by the music of verse and of thought, by the grace of his diction as well as of his imagery; and when this want of a sweet flowing beauty both in thought and versification…is coupled with a positive want of dramatic or speculative interest in the story, and a by no means new or newly put moral, we may be pardoned if we regard Sordello as a failure in toto.
