WHISTLER, Lawrence. "Browning as a Dramatist," a 9pp. manuscript in Whistler's hand, written in pencil on one side only of unlined foolscap folio sheets, about 35 lines per page, evidently the fair copy for a radio broadcast of about quarter of an hour, undated but probably circa 1945-46, quotations marked with symbols in blue crayon to indicate male or female voice. Whilst being aware of Browning's weaknesses as a dramatic poet -- he is describing emotions from outside rather than within -- Whistler emphasises the importance of his contribution to the development of modern poetry. "As modern poetry evolves, it has, as it were, dug down into, & lifted up into the light of imagination, one layer after another of the unnoticed. Browning gives us many examples of this extended awareness ... It's not a question of thinking the explosion of a match a fit subject for poetry. It's a question of noticing it in detail, with the eye of imagination, & finding the right words for it. In these passages Browning is simply a generation more modern than Keats. By that, of course, I don't mean that he's better."