A poet has no right to be so indifferent, so careless of clearness in his art, I might almost say, so lazy.

Browning is negligent to a fault, almost to impertinence.

The great poets put the right words in the right places, and Tennyson is with them in that.
Browning continually puts his words into the wrong places.

He leaves out words necessary for the easy understanding of the passage, and for no reason except his fancy.

He leaves his sentences half-finished and his meaning half-expressed.