CHAPTER IV

Italian Poetry in the Poems of Browning.

I. General Statement 29 II. Predominance in Early Poems 29 III. Sordello 30 IV. The Imaginary Poets 30 V. The Italian as the Type of Failure 31 VI. Italian Men of Letters: Dante 32 VII. Other Real Writers 33 VIII. Browning’s Knowledge of Italian Literature 33 IX. Browning’s Interest in Italian Literature 34