His representation of women in his other poems does not pass beyond a few simple, well-known types both of good and bad women.

But the particular types into which the variety of womanhood continually throws itself, the quick individualities, the fantastic simplicities and subtleties, the resolute extremes, the unconsidered impulses, the obstinate good and evil, the bold cruelties and the bold self-sacrifices, the fears and audacities, the hidden work of the thoughts and passions of women in the far-off worlds within them where their soul claims and possesses its own desires--these were beyond the power of Tennyson to describe, even, I think, to conceive.

But they were in the power of Browning, and he made them, at least in lyric poetry, a chief part of his work.
In women he touched great variety and great individuality; two things each of which includes the other, and both of which were dear to his imagination.

With his longing for variety of representation, he was not content to pile womanhood up into a few classes, or to dwell on her universal qualities.

He took each woman separately, marking out the points which differentiated her from, not those which she shared with, the rest of her sex.