Wanting is--What? My Star. The Flight of the Duchess. The Last Ride Together. By the Fireside. Prospice. Amphibian. James Lee’s Wife. A Tale. Confessions. Respectability. Home-Thoughts from Abroad. Home-Thoughts from the Sea. Old Pictures in Florence. Pictor Ignotus. Andrea del Sarto. Fra Lippo Lippi. A Face. The Bishop orders his Tomb. A Toccata of Galuppi’s. Abt Vogler. ‘Touch him ne’er so lightly’, etc. Memorabilia. How it strikes a Contemporary. “Transcendentalism”. Apparent Failure. Rabbi Ben Ezra. A Grammarian’s Funeral. An Epistle containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician. A Martyr’s Epitaph. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. Holy-Cross Day. Saul. A Death in the Desert. POEMS. Wanting is--What? My Star. The Flight of the Duchess. The Last Ride Together. By the Fireside. Prospice. Amphibian. James Lee’s Wife. A Tale. Confessions. Respectability. Home Thoughts, from Abroad. Home Thoughts, from the Sea. Old Pictures in Florence. Pictor Ignotus. Andrea del Sarto. Fra Lippo Lippi. A Face. The Bishop orders his Tomb. A Toccata of Galuppi’s. Abt Vogler. “Touch him ne’er so lightly.” Memorabilia. How it strikes a Contemporary. “Transcendentalism”: Apparent Failure. Rabbi Ben Ezra. A Grammarian’s Funeral. An Epistle containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician. A Martyr’s Epitaph. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. Holy-Cross Day. Saul. A Death in the Desert. A LIST OF CRITICISMS OF BROWNING’S WORKS. INTRODUCTION. I. The Spiritual Ebb and Flow exhibited in English Poetry from Chaucer to Tennyson and Browning. Literature, in its most restricted art-sense, is an expression in letters of the life of the spirit of man co-operating with the intellect. Without the co-operation of the spiritual man, the intellect produces only thought; and pure thought, whatever be the subject with which it deals, is not regarded as literature, in its strict sense. For example, Euclid’s ‘Elements’, Newton’s ‘Principia’, Spinoza’s ‘Ethica’, and Kant’s ‘Critique of the Pure Reason’, do not properly belong to literature. (By the “spiritual” I would be understood to mean the whole domain of the emotional, the susceptible or impressible, the sympathetic, the intuitive; in short, that mysterious something in the constitution of man by and through which he holds relationship with the essential spirit of things, as opposed to the phenomenal of which the senses take cognizance.)