Ah hadn't heard of these. Will check them out. As to the article: good reading. I was always mildly curious why literary societies should grow around Robert Br

Ah hadn't heard of these. Will check them out. As to the article: good reading. I was always mildly curious why literary societies should grow around Robert Browning of all people. It's bewildering: America gripped by Browning fever? A children’s performance of Browning’s Pied Piper of Hamelin drawing more people than a baseball game...in TEXAS?! Truly the past is a foreign country.