They carry their personal desires, aspirations and impulses into act, speech, and into extremes with much greater licence than is possible to men.

One touches with them much more easily the original stuff of humanity.

It was this original, individual and various Thing in women on which Browning seized with delight.

He did not write half as much as other poets had done of woman as being loved by man or as loving him.

I have said that the mere love-poem is no main element in his work.