More than a little, I'd say …

… Robert Browning deserves a little fuss - Telegraph. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Browning’s best poetry, found especially in his dramatic monologues, such as “My Last Duchess”, “Mr Sludge, 'The Medium’ ”, and “Bishop Blougram’s Apology” is never what is called “poetical”. Owing something to Byron – the Byron of Don Juan, for like Byron he is a great comic writer – Browning’s language is conversational. He strove to catch the trick and rhythm of speech – just as Eliot was to do in The Waste Land. That speech is often awkward, jagged, broken-up, allusive, given to digressions and second thoughts which correct, or seem to correct, what has previously been said. It is sometimes obscure and sometimes grotesque, as speech may be when it reflects or discloses character.