Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkRobert Browning

A Soul's Tragedy

Robert Browning (1812–1889)

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Browning's Poems

“Browning's Poems”
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“The second piece, "A Soul's Tragedy," is another of the deepest tragedies — a man fancying himself good because he was harsh, honourable because he was not sweet, truer than the lovely and loving natures, because unskilled to use their winning ways.”

Fuller, Margaret. Art, Literature, and the Drama. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. New York: The Tribune Association, 1869. · p222