For this high reserve we and the future of art will owe him gratitude.
On the contrast between the theology we find in Tennyson and Browning, and on the contrast between their ethical positions, it will be wiser not to speak in this introduction.

These two contrasts would lead me too far afield, and they have little or nothing to do with poetry.

Moreover, Browning's theology and ethics, as they are called, have been discussed at wearying length for the last ten years, and especially by persons who use his poetry to illustrate from it their own systems of theology, philosophy and ethics.
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I will pass, therefore, to another contrast--the contrast between them as Artists.
A great number of persons who write about the poets think, when they have said the sort of things I have been saying, that they have said either enough, or the most important things.

The things are, indeed, useful to say; they enable us to realise the poet and his character, and the elements of which his poetry is made.