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Browning and Bret Harte.(19th-century poets Robert Browning and Bret Harte)(Critical Essay)

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From: ANQ
Date: 19990622
Author:SCHARNHORST, GARY

In his story "The Poet of Sierra Flat," Bret Harte satirized his own early literary success in the character of Milton Chubbuck, a doggerel poet whose unexpected popularity in the California mining camps earns him the congratulations of Longfellow and Browning, among others (117).(1) The comic incongruity of these events notwithstanding, by 1874 the first bloom of his success had faded, and Harte was accused of blatantly imitating Browning in his dramatic monologue "For the King" ("Books, Authors and Art"). In fact, Harte readily allowed that, in his opinion, "How They Brought ...

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