No trace of the British Constitution is to be found in his poetry; no one could tell from it that he had any social views or politics at all.

Sixty years in close contact with this country and its movements, and not a line about them! He records the politics of the place and people of whom or of which he is for the moment writing, but he takes no side.

We know what they thought at Rome or among the Druses of these matters, but we do not know what Browning thought.

The art-representation, the _Vorstellung_ of the thing, is all; the personal view of the poet is nothing.

It is the same in social matters.