He never became a conservative.

The last book he published in his life-time, _Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day_, was a new poem, and more revolutionary than _Paracelsus_.

This is the true light in which to regard Browning as an artist.

He had determined to leave no spot of the cosmos unadorned by his poetry which he could find it possible to adorn.

An admirable example can be found in that splendid poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came." It is the hint of an entirely new and curious type of poetry, the poetry of the shabby and hungry aspect of the earth itself.