Finally, he rested where he had been when he wrote _In Memoriam_, nay more, where he had been when he began to write.
There were no such intervals in Browning's thought.

One could scarcely say from his poetry, except in a very few places, that he was aware of the social changes of his time, or of the scientific and critical movement which, while he lived, so profoundly modified both theology and religion.[2] _Asolando_, in 1890, strikes the same chords, but more feebly, which _Paracelsus_ struck in 1835.
But though, in this lofty apartness and self-unity, Browning and Tennyson may fairly be said to be at one, in themselves and in their song they were different.

There could scarcely be two characters, two musics, two minds, two methods in art, two imaginations, more distinct and contrasted than those which lodged in these men--and the object of this introduction is to bring out this contrast, with the purpose of placing in a clearer light some of the peculiar elements in the poetry of Browning, and in his position as a poet.
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Their public fate was singularly different.

In 1842 Tennyson, with his two volumes of Collected Poems, made his position.