Author: William Clyde DeVane
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Author: William Clyde DeVane
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Category : Browning, Robert. Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Clyde de L. Ryals
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501743228
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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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."

Author: Norton B. Crowell
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Donald S. Hair
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148758962X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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What are the influences that shaped the language used by one of the nineteenth century's greatest writers? How did his religious beliefs, the books he owned, the paintings and music he loved, affect almost sixty years' output of poems, plays, essays, and letters? This book attempts to define Browning's understanding of the nature and use of words and syntax by considering not only a full range of texts from the 1833 Pauline to the 1889 Asolando, but also the ideas important to Browning, the historical context in which he lived, and the other artistic passions that played a part in his life. In this companion volume to Tennyson's Language, Donald Hair establishes Browning's place at the crossroads between empirical and idealist traditions and explains his "double view" of language, arguing that both Locke and the Congregationalists found language to be at the same time empty and a God-given essential. The Victorian age's anti-theatrical bias, which Browning came to share, and his reading of predecessors, principally Quarles, Bunyan, Donne, and Smart, also shaped his understanding of the diction of poetry. Hair conceives of Browning's language as a theoretical whole, encompassing words, genres, rhyme, syntax, and phonetics. He also links Browning's interest in music with his rhyming, the most essential and characteristic feature of his prosody, and relates his interest in painting to the interpretation of the visual image in the emblem and in typology.

Author: Harriet Semmes Alexander
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719017063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Author: Roy E. Gridley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317207602
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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First published in 1972. Browning was a keen observer and dramatic recorder of nineteenth-century European culture; his poetry reflects a wide range of intellectual, religious and artistic issues of his day. Roy E. Gridley shows here that during the six decades of Browning’s active writing career (1832-89), his poetry is a record and an interpretation of the changing modes of thought, feeling and expression of nineteenth-century life. Browning was a ‘romantic’ who, by virtue of his realistic and often revolutionary poetry, became a ‘modern’, and had considerable influence on writers such as Yeats, Eliot and Pound. While surveying the whole of Browning’s life and work, Gridley focuses closely on the more famous poems, examining them as documents that give the general reader a deeper appreciation of the richness and diversity of life in Victorian Europe.

Author: Barbara Arnett Melchiori
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Category : Dramatic monologues
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Robert Browning
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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