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Life and Letters of Robert Browning-Part37_Mrs.Sutherland Orr(1828-1903)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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`Agamemnon' -- `The Inn Album' -- `Pacchiarotto and other Poems' --

Visits to Oxford and Cambridge -- Letters to Mrs. Fitz-Gerald --



St. Andrews; Letter from Professor Knight -- In the Savoyard Mountains --

Death of Miss Egerton-Smith -- `La Saisiaz'; `The Two Poets of Croisic' --



Selections from his Works.

The period on which we have now entered, covering roughly



the ten or twelve years which followed the publication

of `The Ring and the Book', was the fullest in Mr. Browning's life;



it was that in which the varied claims made by it on his moral, and above all

his physical energies, found in him the fullest power of response.



He could rise early and go to bed late -- this, however, never from choice;

and occupy every hour of the day with work or pleasure,



in a manner which his friends recalled regretfully in later years,

when of two or three engagements which ought to have divided his afternoon,



a single one -- perhaps only the most formally pressing -- could be fulfilled.

Soon after his final return to England, while he still lived



in comparative seclusion, certain habits of friendly intercourse,

often superficial, but always binding, had rooted themselves in his life.



London society, as I have also implied, opened itself to him

in ever-widening circles, or, as it would be truer to say,



drew him more and more deeply into its whirl; and even before the mellowing

kindness of his nature had infused warmth into the least substantial



of his social relations, the imaginativecuriosity of the poet --

for a while the natural ambition of the man -- found satisfaction in it.



For a short time, indeed, he entered into the fashionable routine

of country-house visiting. Besides the instances I have already given,



and many others which I may have forgotten, he was heard of,

during the earlier part of this decade, as the guest of Lord Carnarvon



at Highclere Castle, of Lord Shrewsbury at Alton Towers,

of Lord Brownlow and his mother, Lady Marian Alford, at Belton and Ashridge.



Somewhat later, he stayed with Mr. and Lady Alice Gaisford

at a house they temporarily occupied on the Sussex downs;



with Mr. Cholmondeley at Condover, and, much more recently,

at Aynhoe Park with Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright. Kind and pressing,



and in themselves very tempting invitations of this nature came to him

until the end of his life; but he very soon made a practice of declining them,



because their acceptance could only renew for him the fatigues

of the London season, while the tantalizing beauty and repose of the country



lay before his eyes; but such visits, while they continued,

were one of the necessary social experiences which brought



their grist to his mill.

And now, in addition to the large social tribute which he received,



and had to pay, he was drinking in all the enjoyment, and incurring

all the fatigue which the London musical world could create for him.



In Italy he had found the natural home of the other arts. The one poem,

`Old Pictures in Florence', is sufficientlyeloquent of long communion



with the old masters and their works; and if his history in Florence and Rome

had been written in his own letters instead of those of his wife,






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