The poetry of Browning,... «Pippa Passes»
innashpitzberg27 мая 2013The poetry of Browning, says Walter Pater in a passage of subtle and essential criticism, ' is pre- eminently the poetry of situations. The characters themselves are always of secondary importance ; often they are characters in themselves of little interest ; they seem to come to him by strange accidents from the ends of the world. His gift is shown by the way in which he accepts such a character, and throws it into some situation, or apprehends it in some delicate pause of life, in which for a moment it becomes ideal.' Each of the scenes of Pippa Passes contains such a situation, and, by a unique experiment in construction, all are strung upon a single thread, and, as Pater, speaking of a single poem, continues, the poem 'has the clear ring of a central motive ; we receive from it the impression of one imaginative tone, of a single creative act.'
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