A FACE

"No poem in the volume of _Dramatis Personæ_ is connected with pictorial

art, unless it be the few lines entitled 'A Face,' lines of which Emily

Patmore, the poet's wife, was the subject, and written, as Browning

seldom wrote, for the mere record of beauty. That 'little head of hers'

is transferred to Browning's panel in the manner of an early Tuscan

piece of ideal loveliness." (Dowden, _Life of Browning_.)

14. _Correggio._ A famous Italian painter of the Lombard school. These

lines well describe his style.

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