Pauline, Browning's first poem, written at 19 and published at 21, “breathless, intense, melodramatic,” says Professor Saintsbury, “eschewing incident, but delighting in analysis, which was to be one of the poet's points throughout, and ultimately to prevail over the others.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Paulicians * Paulinus