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Title: An Introduction to the Study of Browning
Author: Arthur Symons
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AN INTRODUCTION
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, An Introduction to the Study of Browning, by Arthur Symons
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BROWNING
First Edition, 1906. Reprinted, 1916
AN INTRODUCTION
TO THE STUDY OF
BROWNING
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BROWNING
BY
ARTHUR SYMONS
NEW EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED
LONDON, PARIS AND TORONTO J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.
10-13 BEDFORD STREET, W.C. 1916
" ... Browning, a great poet, a very great poet indeed, as the world will have to agree with us
in thinking."\u2014LANDOR.
TO
GEORGE MEREDITH
NOVELIST AND POET
THIS LITTLE BOOK ON AN ILLUSTRIOUS CONTEMPORARY
IS WITH DEEP RESPECT AND ADMIRATION
INSCRIBED.
PREFACE
This Introduction to the Study of Browning, which is now reprinted in a new form, revised throughout, and
with everything relating to facts carefully brought up to date, has been for many years out of print. I wrote it
as an act of homage to the poet whom I had worshipped from my boyhood; I meant it to be, in almost his own
words, used of Shelley, some approach to "the signal service it was the dream of my boyhood to render to his
fame and memory."
It was sufficiently rewarded by three things: first, by the generous praise of Walter Pater, in theGuardian,
which led to the beginning of my friendship with him; then, by a single sentence from George Meredith, "You
have done knightly service to a brave leader"; lastly, by a letter from Browning himself, in which he said:
"How can I manage even to thank\ue000much more praise\ue001what, in its generosity of appreciation, makes the
poorest recognition 'come too near the praising of myself'?"
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An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945
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