_WOMANHOOD IN BROWNING_ The first woman we meet in Browning's poetry is Pauline; a twofold person, exceedingly unlike the woman usually made by a young poet.

She is not only the Pauline idealised and also materialised by the selfish passion of her lover, but also the real woman whom Browning has conceived underneath the lover's image of her.

This doubling of his personages, as seen under two diverse aspects or by two different onlookers, in the same poem, is not unfrequent in his poetry, and it pleased his intellect to make these efforts.

When the thing was well done, its cleverness was amazing, even imaginative; when it was ill done, it was confusing.

Tennyson never did this; he had not analytic power enough.