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The Poetry Of Robert Browning

CHAPTER V
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There are two kinds of lyrics among many others.

One is where the strong emotion of the poet, fusing all his materials into one creation, comes to a height and then breaks off suddenly.

It is like a thunderstorm, which, doubling and redoubling its flash and roar, ends in the zenith with the brightest flash and loudest clang of thunder.

There is another kind.

It is when the storm of emotion reaches, like the first, its climax, but does not end with it.


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