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He whom the mourning of his widow taught to drink the sweet wormwood of pain, tells us of Nella praying in her lonely bed, and we learn from the mouth of Buonconte how a single tear may save a dying sinner from the fiend. Sordello, that noble and disdainful Lombard, eyes us from afar like a couchant lion.
Four years before the publication of 'Sordello' he had written one play, 'Strafford, of which the name sufficiently indicates the subject, which had been put upon the stage with some success by Macready; the forerunner of a noble series of poems in dramatic form, most conveniently mentioned here together, though not always in chronological order.
The anticipations of genius had already produced a finer etching than any of these, in those lines of marvellous swiftness and intensity in Paracelsus, which describe Constantinople at the hour of sunset. The publication of Sordello did not improve Browning's position with the public. The poem was a challenge to the understanding of an aspirant reader, and the challenge met with no response.
Bertran d'Alamanon said that the heart should not be divided among the cowards, enumerated by Sordello, but given to the noble ladies of the age: Peire Bremen proposed a division of the body.
Alixe could not refuse, for the moment he finished speaking she heard a too familiar motive, the ponderous phrase in the brass choir which Van Kuyp intended as the thematic label for his hero, "Sordello." "Ah, there's your Browning in tone for you," whispered the critic. She wished him miles away.
Browning's Sordello to an historical reality, which his author had grasped, as far as was then possible, but to which he was never intended to conform.
He lost his review, and the goodwill of its intending writer; and even Miss Martineau was ever afterwards cooler towards him, though his attitude in the matter had been in some degree prompted by a chivalrous partisanship for her. First Italian Journey Letters to Miss Haworth Mr. John Kenyon 'Sordello' Letter to Miss Flower 'Pippa Passes' 'Bells and Pomegranates'. Mr.
The analysis of a state of mind, pursued in Sordello with an effort that is sometimes fatiguing and not always successful, is presently followed by a superb portrait like that of Salinguerra painted by the artist, not the analyst, and so admirable is it that in our infirmity we are tempted to believe that the process of flaying and dissection alters the person of a man or woman as Swift has said, considerably for the worse.
In something of the same spirit, Robert Browning, in the old days before he was comprehended, used to speak of "the entirely unintelligible Sordello," as if, sarcastically, to meet criticism half-way. When The Wild Duck was first circulated among Ibsen's admirers, it was received with some bewilderment.
Virgil disclosed himself, and Sordello fell at his feet.
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