Nor are other poems wanting, in which, not long analysis, but short passion, fiery outbursts of thought, taking immediate form, are represented with astonishing intensity.
2.

This second remarkable power of his touches the transition which has begun to carry us, in the last few years, from the subjective to the objective in art.

The time came, and quite lately, when art, weary of intellectual and minute investigation, turned to realise, not the long inward life of a soul with all its motives laid bare, but sudden moments of human passion, swift and unoutlined impressions on the senses, the moody aspects of things, flared-out concentrations of critical hours of thought and feeling which years perhaps of action and emotion had brought to the point of eruption.

Impressionism was born in painting, poetry, sculpture and music.
It was curious that, when we sought for a master who had done this in the art of poetry, we found that Browning--who had in long poems done the very opposite of impressionism--had also, in a number of short poems, anticipated impressionist art by nearly forty years.

_Porphyria's Lover_, many a scene in _Sordello_, _My Last Duchess_, _The Laboratory_, _Home Thoughts from Abroad_, are only a few out of many.