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And as he knew her, so he wrote of her in the opening of his La Saisiaz: You supposed that few or none had known and loved you in the world: May be! flower that's full-blown tempts the butterfly, not flower that's furled.
The year 1864 may be ascertained by comparing it with a letter addressed to F.T. Palgrave, given in Palgrave's Life, the date of this letter being Oct. 19, 1864. If three stanzas were added to the first draft before the poem appeared in The Atlantic Monthly the number of lines would have been 120. She regarded "La Saisiaz" as conclusive proof of his "heterodox attitude."
In spite of his increasing years, his books seemed if anything to come thicker and faster. Two were published in 1878 La Saisiaz, his great metaphysical poem on the conception of immortality, and that delightfully foppish fragment of the ancien régime, The Two Poets of Croisic. Those two poems would alone suffice to show that he had not forgotten the hard science of theology or the harder science of humour. Another collection followed in 1879, the first series of Dramatic Idylls, which contain such masterpieces as "Pheidippides" and "Iv
Andrews; Letter from Professor Knight In the Savoyard Mountains Death of Miss Egerton-Smith 'La Saisiaz'; 'The Two Poets of Croisic' Selections from his Works. Browning's life; it was that in which the varied claims made by it on his moral, and above all his physical energies, found in him the fullest power of response.
Browning's best gifts in this volume, that looks pale beside its predecessors, are one or two short lyrics of love, which continue the series of his latest lyrical poems, begun in the exquisite prologue to La Saisiaz and the graceful epilogue to The Two Poets of Croisic, and continued in the songs of Ferishtah's Fancies and Asolando not the least valuable part of the work of his elder years.
He was satisfied that whatever it gave, and whatever it withheld, it would be good. In his normal condition this sufficed to him. 'La Saisiaz' appeared in the early summer of 1878, and with it 'The Two Poets of Croisic', which had been written immediately after it. The various incidents of this poem are strictly historical; they lead the way to a characteristic utterance of Mr.
Finally in La Saisiaz Browning, writing in his own person, records the experience of his spirit in confronting the problem of death.
It is conclusive both in form and matter as to his heterodox attitude towards Christianity. He was no less, in his way, a Christian when he wrote 'La Saisiaz' than when he published 'A Death in the Desert' and 'Christmas Eve and Easter Day'; or at any period subsequent to that in which he accepted without questioning what he had learned at his mother's knee.
When Browning returned to London the poem La Saisiaz, the record of his inquisition into the mystery of death, of his inward debate concerning a future life, was written. It was the effort of resilience in his spirit in opposition to that stroke which deprived him of the friend who was so near and dear.
They stayed again together in 1875 at Villers, on the coast of Normandy; in 1876 at the Isle of Arran; in 1877 at a house called La Saisiaz Savoyard for the sun in the Saleve district near Geneva. The autumn months of 1874 were marked for Mr.
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