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How welcome Browning's playfulness seems in the landscape of serious 19th century British poetry. Apart from Byron - who I often think was a late-born Tory satirist - the Romantics are heavy on philosophical pondering, light on jokes. And much post-Romantic verse is either driven by anxieties about social and technological change or retreats into decadence. Both are compelling, but neither is exactly fun.
It's as though the 19th-century novel takes over from poetry the role of wry wit and social satire.
But not Robert Browning. Browning is a delight. ( )