[The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Stopford A. Brooke]@TWC D-Link bookThe Poetry Of Robert Browning CHAPTER XIII 37/39
He is radically true, and she is radically false.
A fatal split would have been inevitable. Nothing could be better for them both--after their momentary outburst of love at the end--than death. From the point of view of art, Constance is interesting.
It is more than we can say of Domizia in _Luria_.
She is nothing more than a passing study whom Browning uses to voice his theories.
Eulalia in _A Soul's Tragedy_ is also a transient thing, only she is more colourless, more a phantom than Domizia. By this time, by the year 1846, Browning had found out that he could not write dramas well, or even such dramatic proverbs as _In a Balcony_.
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