Read it through once

-- * Originally a lecture, delivered in 1868, and published in ‘Afternoon Lectures on Literature and Art’ (Dublin), 5th series, 1869; afterwards revised, and included in the author’s ‘Studies in Literature, 1789-1877’. It is one of the best criticisms of Browning’s poetry that have yet been produced. Every Browning student should make a careful study of it. --