AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ROBERT BROWNING'S POETRY BY HIRAM CORSON, LL.D., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY; AUTHOR OF ENGLISH VERSE, CHIEFLY IN ITS ESTHETIC AND ORGANIC "Subtlest Assertor of the Soul in song." BOSTON, U.S.A.: D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1904 مبله My dear Dr Corson, I waited some days after the arrival of your be able to say mon of my sense of your Wodnes : but I can do no more now than a week ago. You hope I shall not find for much to dis approve of : what I ought to potest agumist, is a wad to mich a navy - For much honor" 1⁄2 how can I put asidu your generosity, as if wld justice - however befitting myself; would be in bitter agree= 2 ment with your nature Let it remain assurance to younger poets that, د after fifty years work unattended by I have another munificent appreciator let them, even grateful. mose deserving, be equally I have not observed anything in need ་་ of correction in the notes. The little Fablet was a famous ... Vasan, and Lash supper", mentioned by I gone astray long ago from up, Church of S. spirite : it turned of. -ding to report, the in some obsson wrner, while I was in Florence, and was at once acquired by a thanger. I sain it, genumo a work of great beauty (Page 156.) " "A canon in music, is a piece where in the subject is repeated - in various keys - and being strictly obeyed in the repetition, becomes the "Canon - the imperativi law & what ་་ ouch parts would be indeed follows. Fifty of achievement for a good musición. here is Christmas & all an and now i my his his qu you and mes Corson of my Fister also. The was indeed muf. :fering from grave indisposition in the sunimes, but is rappily movered. I could not venture, under the incumer = stances, & expose her convalescence to the accidents of foreign travel: Lence our contenting ourselves with |