R451000A. General Review Essay.
The Theologian, October 1845, p. 599.
Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 11.
Even in Browning’s works, though not of a generally direct religious tendency, we trace the influence of a higher, and unconsciously more religious spirit. The simple Pippa, with her meek devotedness to Heaven, in that exquisite creation, “Pippa Passes;” the gentle and penitent Mildred, in the no less or even more beautiful “Blot on the Scutcheon;” the truthful noble Charles, in “King Victor and King Charles;” and again, the general bearings of “Paracelsus,” which we have already noticed at some length, all are evidences, that the poet mind of Browning is not uninfluenced by the spirit of Christianity, and breathes love and trust rather than suspicion and discontent.
[Archer Thompson Gurney]
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