CHAPTER VI.
EARLY YEARS IN ITALY Correspondence of R.B.and E.B.B .-- Journey to Italy--Pisa--Florence--Vallombrosa--Italian politics--Casa Guidi-Friends--Son born--Death of Browning's mother--Wanderings.
CHAPTER VII CHRISTMAS EVE AND EASTER DAY Publication--Movements of Religious Thought--Dissent--Catholicism--Criticism--Difficulties of Christian life--Imaginative power of the poems--In Venice--Paris--England--Paris again--Coup d'etat.