What he says as a poet concerning the ideas which should rule the temper of the soul and human life in relation to our fellow men may be applied to our social questions, and usefully; but Browning is not on that plane.

There are no poems directly applied to them.

This means that he kept himself outside the realm of political and social discussions and in the realm of those high emotions and ideas out of which imagination in lonely creation draws her work to light.

With steady purpose he refused to make his poetry the servant of the transient, of the changing elements of the world.

He avoided the contemporary.