If Browning's idea of the quickening, the regeneration, the rectification of personality, through a higher personality, be fully comprehended, his idea of the great function of Art, as an intermediate agency of personality, will become plain. To emphasize the latter idea may be said to be the ultimate purpose of his masterpiece, `The Ring and the Book'.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
The complexity of the circumstances involved in the Roman murder case, adapts it admirably to the poet's purpose -- namely, to exhibit the swervings of human judgment in spite of itself, and the conditions upon which the rectification of that judgment depends.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》