Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1889 — How to Read Browning. [ARTICLE]

How to Read Browning.

To the young lover of poetry, who has been friglitened away from Mr. Browning by the sibyls who shriek and the priests who beat their vain cymbals around him, interpreting his dark meanings, I would say, read “Man and Woman.” Bead it without puzzling alter problems, or grubbing for mor: than you see on the suriace. 'Bead “Man and Woman” as you read “Adonis,” or “The Ode to Autumn,” or “The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” or the “Ancient Mariner,” jusi for the first plain sense, for the romance, for the delight of the heart and the fanev, for the human beings who move there, and the human emotions. Whoever does this, not being blind and deaf to poetry, will be a life-long and grateful admirer of Mr. Browning.— Andrew Lang, in the Forum.