No one would know from his writings that high deeds of sacrifice in battle had been done by other nations.

He knew of them, but he did not care to write about them.

Nor can we trace in his work any care for national struggles or national life beyond this island--except in a few sonnets and short pieces concerning Poland and Montenegro--an isolation of interests which cannot be imputed to any other great poet of the first part of the nineteenth century, excepting Keats, who had no British or foreign interests.

Keats had no country save the country of Beauty.
At all these points Browning differed from Tennyson.

He never displayed a special patriotism.