...for the artistic position. In the preface to the edition of 1868, Browning speaks of his poems as " always dramatic in principle and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine." Again, in At the Mermaid, he writes : Which of you did I enable Once to slip inside my breast,...

...containing much of Browning's very best work. Whether in the form of lyric or monologue, they are all " dramatic in principle, and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine." ' Christmas Eve and Easter Day, companion poems, deal, the one with evangelicalism, Roman...

...is now time to consider how far this volume fulfils the author's statement that the poems included are " always dramatic in principle, and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine ". It has been mentioned earlier that Browning's method of dramatic presentation was " the...

...properly enough . . . under the head of Dramatic Pieces ; being, though often lyric in expression, always Dramatic in principle, and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine."1 In the introduction to the 1867 collected edition of his works he includes "Pauline" in...

...insisted, in a curious and rather suspicious manner, on the dramatic character of his work — " poetry always dramatic in principle, and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine." He is so anxious not to be misunderstood in this matter that he harps on it in the very...

...properly enough, I suppose, under the head of "Dramatic Pieces"; being, though often Lyric in expression, always Dramatic in principle, and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine. The full meaning of the word ' dramatic' as a term of morphology would involve more than...

...come under the head of ' " dramatic pieces," being, though for the most part lyric ' in expression, always " dramatic " in principle, and so ' many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine.' But to all these compositions, and also to the more finished dramas which were meant for...

...changed) and introduce a boyish work by an exculpatory word. The thing was my earliest attempt at "poetry always dramatic in principle, and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine," which I have since written according to a scheme less extravagant and scale less impracticable...

...Fire-side, or whether according to the preface of his first poem, Pauline, he expresses them as "a poetry always dramatic in principle and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine". Finally, he is subjective, in spite of his objective method, by his belief in inspiration...

...emphasized that his poems did not concern himself. He repeated the formulation that his poems were "dramatic in principle, and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine."11 By detaching these "utterances" from his own person, he avoids presenting problems of...