Quantity II comprises Stafford, a play seldom reprinted, and Sordello, a poem ordinarily, yet mistakenly, ignored as "unintelligible." The booklet seems at Browning's correspondence with Emily Hickey, the 1st editor of Strafford, and significant copies of Sordello that aid to make clear Browning's makes an attempt to revise the poem. additionally incorporated are such of the juvenilia that survive.
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