This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PARACELSUS. I. Paracelsus Aspires. "Where'er you gazed, there stood a star!" "I HAVE endeavoured to write a poem, not a drama," Browning writes in his preface to the earliest edition of Paracelsus; anticipating the adverse criticism with which his work might be met, if "judged by principles upon which it was never moulded, and subjected to a standard to which it was never meant to conform." The event has proved that one part of the apology was not necessary. Among the many sins laid to the charge of Browning by the critics of Paracelsus, his designed neglect of the laws of the drama has not often been brought forward. But with the words "I have endeavoured to write a poem," he claims for himself--incidentally, it is true-- that which has very often been ignored by his readers. There are, in fact, many points of interest in Paracelsus which lie outside the domain of poetry; as in a picture many arts of the mere draughtsman may arrest the eye, and challenge criticism. There is the question (of the historical Paracelsus, of the science of the day, of the philosophy of Paracelsus, and Nsf Browning's own philosophy; and all this has a tendency to make us forget that the whole is primarily a product not of the mind, but of the soul; that it is not an act of reason, but an act of sight; in a word, that it is a poem; and as such appeals to a subtler sense than historian, scientist, or philosopher can touch. Throughout we see the subordinating of all else to this one aim of giving a poetical, that is, a true and deep - reaching interpretation of the subject. Take one instance of this from Browning's treatment of history. He comes to the task of writing Paracelsus steeped in the history of the time] This he considers the necessary preparation. But he knows that his art is...
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