ARTHUR SYMONS

NEW EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED

LONDON, PARIS AND TORONTO J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.

10-13 BEDFORD STREET, W.C. 1916

" ... Browning, a great poet, a very great poet indeed, as the world will have to agree with us in thinking."—LANDOR.

TO

GEORGE MEREDITH

NOVELIST AND POET

THIS LITTLE BOOK ON AN ILLUSTRIOUS CONTEMPORARY

IS WITH DEEP RESPECT AND ADMIRATION

INSCRIBED.