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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 19990305
Author:Alex Berlyne

Alex Berlyne
Jerusalem Post
03-05-1999
In his Memorabilia, Robert Browning famously asked "Ah, did you see Shelley plain...?" William Torr, a rather obscure Victorian agriculturalist, never clapped eyes on Percy Bysshe but he once saw Robert plain enough. "I used to read Browning with interest and respect, if not with pleasure," he wrote, "until one afternoon I saw him running after an omnibus at the end of Piccadilly; and I could not stand his loftier poetry after that."

Authors should be read not seen, Torr concluded, a precept E.P. Vardy, my roommate, endorses wholeheartedly. Many years ...

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