Who wrote the poem How They Brought The Good News From Ghent To Aix?
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" is a poem by Robert Browning published in "Dramatic Romances and Lyrics", 1845. The poem, one of the volume's "dramatic romances", is a first-person narrative told, in breathless galloping meter, by one of three riders; the midnight errand is urgent—"the news which alone could save Aix from her fate"—but what that good news actually is never revealed. The poem is "noted for its onomatopoetic effects. It describes a purely imaginary incident", observed William Rose Benet. Browning himself remarked in a
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix railways. The towns through which the riders pass are characterized only by the associated time of night, dawn, and day, also a feature of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's later poem of urgent nightlong news-bearing, "Paul Revere's Ride". W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman parodied Browning's poem in their book "Horse Nonsense" as "How I Brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent (or Vice Versa)". In 1889 Browning attempted to recite the poem into a phonograph at a public gathering, but forgot the words; this is the only record of Browning's voice. How They Brought the Good News from Ghent