Many poets have given them a finer intuition; that is a common representation.

But greater intellectual power allotted to women is only to be found in Browning.

The instances of it are few, but they are remarkable.
It was owing also to his wife, whose relation to him was frank on all points, that Browning saw so much more clearly than other poets into the deep, curious or remote phases of the passions, thoughts and vagaries of womanhood.

I sometimes wonder what women themselves think of the things Browning, speaking through their mouth, makes them say; but that is a revelation of which I have no hope, and for which, indeed, I have no desire.
Moreover, he moved a great deal in the society where women, not having any real work to do, or if they have it, not doing it, permit a greater freedom to their thoughts and impulses than those of their sex who sit at the loom of duty.

Tennyson withdrew from this society, and his women are those of a retired poet--a few real types tenderly and sincerely drawn, and a few more worked out by thinking about what he imagined they would be, not by knowing them.