The two others, and the more finished, have already escaped from Shelley, and are almost pre-Raphaelite, as much so as Keats, in their detail.

Yet all the three are original, not imitative.

They suggest Shelley and Keats, and no more, and it is only the manner and not the matter of these poets that they suggest.

Browning became instantly original in this as in other modes of poetry.

It was characteristic of him from the beginning to the end of his career, to possess within himself his own methods, to draw out of himself new matter and new shapings.
From one point of view this was full of treasureable matter for us.