It always wore the classic dress, submitted itself to the classic traditions, used the classic forms.

In the _Idylls of the King_ he took a romantic story; but nothing could be more unromantic than many of the inventions and the characters; than the temper, the morality, and the conduct of the poem.

The Arthurian poets, Malory himself, would have jumped out their skin with amazement, even with indignation, had they read it.

And a great deal of this oddity, this unfitness of the matter to the manner, arose from the romantic story being expressed in poetry written in accordance with classic traditions.
Of course, there were other sources for these inharmonies in the poem, but that was one, and not the least of them.
Browning had none of these classic traditions.

He had his own matter, quite new stuff it was; and he made his own manner.