Browning's Later Poetry, 1871-1889

2019-06-30
 |  Literary Criticism
Browning's Later Poetry, 1871-1889

Author: Clyde de L. Ryals

Publisher: Cornell University Press

ISBN: 9781501743221

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 288

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Maintaining that Browning's later work has been underestimated, Professor Ryals gives close, sophisticated readings of the individual poems, covering each of the published volumes from Balaustion's Adventure through Asolando. He emphasizes the overall structure of a poem and the manner in which themes and ideas are presented. The later Browning is portrayed as "a poet intent upon discovering forms that would give shape and meaning to thought and experience."

The Poetry of Robert Browning

2019-09-25
 |  Fiction
The Poetry of Robert Browning

Author: Stopford A. Brooke

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

ISBN: 9783734095689

Category: Fiction

Page: 318

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Reproduction of the original: The Poetry of Robert Browning by Stopford A. Brooke

The Shelleys and the Brownings

2022-01-13
 |  Literary Criticism
The Shelleys and the Brownings

Author: Rieko Suzuki

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

ISBN: 9781800855236

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 216

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This book is about the intertextual relationships between the works of the Shelleys and the Brownings. While a lot of research has been done on the relationship between Percy Bysshe Shelley and Robert Browning, virtually nothing has been said about the links between Mary Shelley and Robert Browning, and very little on the connections between the Shelleys and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Rieko Suzuki seeks to address this blind spot by focusing on three areas in particular: firstly, the way that Browning’s later poems reflect back on and re-engage with Shelley’s work; secondly, Mary Shelley’s influence on Browning’s early poems; and thirdly, Shelley’s presence in and influence on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s writing. In mapping out the various ways in which texts relate to other texts, the book also identifies a number of important thematic threads that run throughout the work of all four writers. These include theories of history and historical consciousness, providing a further dimension to the question of ‘influence’. They also include ideas about exile, gender, liberal politics and cultural heritage, central to almost all the texts discussed here, as the Shelleys and the Brownings, in different ways and in varying contexts, tried to negotiate the possibility of a more tolerant and resilient social, political and cultural environment.

The Ring and the Book

1868
 |  Executions and executioners
The Ring and the Book

Author: Robert Browning

Publisher:

ISBN: CORNELL:31924014177368

Category: Executions and executioners

Page: 260

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This is the first edition of The Ring and the Book published by Smith, Elder & Company in 1868. Robert Browning's long blank-verse poem consists of 12 books and over 20,000 lines and was published in four separate volumes. This first volume includes "The Ring and the Book," "Half-Rome" and "The Other Half-Rome." The verse-novel, which tells the story of a murder case that actually occurred in 17th-century Rome, showcases Browning's famous use of dramatic monologue. Ten of the 12 books are in the form of dramatic monologues--nine of them from different narrators. The first and last books in the series are told from the author's point of view. The Ring and the Book finally earned Robert Browning the level of recognition as a poet that he had sought for most of his life, and the piece is largely considered to be his greatest work

Robert Browning

2001-05-04
 |  Literary Criticism
Robert Browning

Author: S. Wood

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9780333992616

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 232

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Browning both denied and affirmed the value of biography for an understanding of literature. This book narrates the development of his controversial creative life through responses to his work by five key nineteenth-century figures: John Stuart Mill, William Charles Macready, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold. It also relates Browning's sense of literary vocation to Victorian publishing. Browning emerges as a writer vividly engaged with contemporary assumptions, yet deeply aware of the unaccountability of writing.

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

2013-10-31
 |  Literary Criticism
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

Author: Matthew Bevis

Publisher: OUP Oxford

ISBN: 9780191653025

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 908

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'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped and shaping forces. The volume is divided into four main sections. The first section on 'Form' looks at a few central innovations and engagements—'Rhythm', 'Beat', 'Address', 'Rhyme', 'Diction', 'Syntax', and 'Story'. The second section, 'Literary Landscapes', examines the traditions and writers (from classical times to the present day) that influence and take their bearings from Victorian poets. The third section provides 'Readings' of twenty-three poets by concentrating on particular poems or collections of poems, offering focused, nuanced engagements with the pleasures and challenges offered by particular styles of thinking and writing. The final section, 'The Place of Poetry', conceives and explores 'place' in a range of ways in order to situate Victorian poetry within broader contexts and discussions: the places in which poems were encountered; the poetic representation and embodiment of various sites and spaces; the location of the 'Victorian' alongside other territories and nationalities; and debates about the place - and displacement - of poetry in Victorian society. This Handbook is designed to be not only an essential resource for those interested in Victorian poetry and poetics, but also a landmark publication—provocative, seminal volume that will offer a lasting contribution to future studies in the area.

Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature

2023-01-13
 |  Literary Criticism
Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature

Author: Joseph Hankinson

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783031187766

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 224

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This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing—two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative kinships between different linguistic and cultural communities. Starting from the numerous and surprising points of connection and resemblance between both authors’ texts, this book puts pressure on critical practices that would keep writers like Laing and Browning separate, positing instead the importance of paying attention to the transnational, cross-cultural, and cross-temporal imaginative relationships texts themselves generate. By comparing two writers whose texts represent different points of view on a number of shared and congruent contexts, this book seeks an original way of understanding the relationship between texts and (post-) colonial contexts, texts and other texts. Browning’s and Laing’s shared tendency to foreground trans- and post-national cartographies of relation and difference, and their similarly translational aesthetics, both demand a probing of the disciplinary separation between ‘English Literature’ and ‘Comparative Literature’, as well as ‘literature’ and ‘comparison’, and a fresh awareness of the ways in which literature itself makes comparisons and affiliations. It also involves a version of ‘world literature’ intent on accentuating the relational worlds (linguistic, imaginative, ethical) that texts themselves generate; a criticism sensitive to the ways in which writers from different times and places can still be seen to overlap.

Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry

2010-01-21
 |  Literary Criticism
Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry

Author: Suzanne Bailey

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136993336

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 200

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Current work on speech pragmatics and visual thinking calls for a radical reassessment of the problem of obscurity or difficulty in Robert Browning’s work. In this innovative study, Bailey reinterprets Browning's life and work in the context of contemporary theories of language and attention, drawn from the cognitive sciences. Specifically, new readings of under-examined historical sources show the extent to which Browning’s cognitive and perceptual worlds differed from the norm, aligning him with Victorians like Sir Francis Galton or fellow-artist William Wetmore Story. Exploring how perceptual biases are transformed in the language of the poems, Bailey demonstrates how the cognitive sciences can ground a new biographical practice, drawing attention to such matters as the creative process and the ethics of understanding individuals who think differently. In doing so, she re-energizes debates about this unusual Victorian poet, his later works, and the nature of literary style.