Download or read book Robert Browning s Language written by Donald S. Hair and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Ring and the Book written by Robert Browning and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Browning s Poetry written by Robert Browning and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1979 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works by modern and Victorian critics are presented together with poems from each stage of Browning's literary career.
Download or read book The Complete Works of Robert Browning Poems Plays Letters Biographies in One Edition written by Robert Browning and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 5310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Robert Browning (1812–1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. Contents: Life and Letters of Robert Browning: Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Mrs. Sutherland Orr The Brownings: Their Life and Art Letters Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp Robert Browning by G.K. Chesterton Poetry: Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics Bells and Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession Sordello Asolando Men and Women Dramatis Personae The Ring and the Book Balaustion's Adventure Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society Fifine at the Fair Red Cotton Nightcap Country Aristophanes' Apology The Inn Album Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper La Saisiaz and the Two Poets of Croisic Dramatic Idylls Dramatic Idylls: Second Series Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day Jocoseria Ferishtah's Fancies Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day Plays: Strafford Paracelsus Bells and Pomegranates No. I: Pippa Passes Bells and Pomegranates No. II: King Victor and King Charles Bells and Pomegranates No. IV: The Return of the Druses Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'scutcheon Bells and Pomegranates No. VI: Colombe's Birthday Bells and Pomegranates No. VIII: Luria and a Soul's Tragedy Herakles The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
Download or read book Selected Poems of Robert Browning written by Robert Browning and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Versification of Robert Browning written by Harlan Hatcher and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supernatural language in Robert Browning s works written by Gal Manor and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kojo Laing Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature written by Joseph Hankinson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Supernatural Language in the Works of Robert Browning written by Gal Manor and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Very Sure of God Religious Language in the Poetry of Robert Browning written by E. LeRoy Lawson and published by Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawson asserts that simplicity & economy rather than complexity characterize Brownings faith.
Download or read book Brownings Shorter Poems written by Robert Browning and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Browning's Shorter Poems is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Robert Browning is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Robert Browning then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
Download or read book Robert Browning Selected Poems written by John Woolford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Browning (1812 – 1889) was one of the defining figures of the Victorian age. Famous in his lifetime for his elopement and marriage to Elizabeth Barratt, his critical reputation grew steadily in the years following her early death. Browning’s mastery of dramatic verse was evident throughout his career, from such chillingly unforgettable monologues as ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’ to the mature work included in his collection Dramatis Personae. This selection, chosen by leading scholars, reveals the innovation, complexity and profound psychological insight that have ensured Browning’s enduring reputation and his continuing appeal to readers today. Browning: Selected Poems results from a completely fresh appraisal of the canon, text and context of the writer’s work. The poems are presented in the order of their composition and in the text in which they were first published, giving a unique insight into the development of Browning’s art. An introduction and chronology offer useful background material, whilst annotations and headnotes provide details of composition, publication, sources and contemporary reception. This authoritative yet accessible selection should become the first point of reference for scholar, student and general reader alike.
Download or read book Browning Cyclopaedia written by Edward Berdoe and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Browning, Like James Joyce, Demands Elucidation. Browning Is Obscure But He Is, Thanks To Books Like Browning Cyclopaedia By Edward Berdoe, No Longer Frightening. This Is No Ordinary Book Of Ready Reference. The Author Does Not Merely Provide Facts And Items Of Information Under Alphabeti¬Cally Arranged Entries; He Also Provides Scholarly, Critical And Detailed Commentary On Obscure Illusions And Hidden Meanings That Abound In The Poems Of Browning. Each Entry In The Browning Cyclopaedia, Thus Not Only Informs Us But Aids And Enhances Our Understanding Of One Of The Most Learned And Scholarly Poets Who Ever Wrote In The English Language. This Book Is A Veritable Boon To The Student, Scholar, Researcher And Classroom Teacher And Must Find A Permanent Niche In Libraries. Up To Its Appearance There Was No Single Book To Which The Reader Could Turn, Which Gave An Exposition Of The Leading Ideas Of Every Poem, Its Key-Note, The Sources Historical, Legendary, Or Fanciful To Which The Poem Was Due, And A Glossary Of Every Difficult Word Or Allusion Which Might Obscure The Sense To Such Readers As Had Short Memories Of Scanty Reading. It Would Be Affectation To Pretend To Believe That Every Educated Person Ought To Know, Without The Aid Of Such A Work As This, What Browning Means By Phrases And Allusions Which May Be Found By Hundreds In His Works. The Wisest Reader Cannot Be Expected To Remember, Even If He Has Ever Learned, A Host Of Remote Incidents In Italian History, For Example, To Say Nothing Of Classical Terms Which Every School Boy Ought To Know, But Rarely Does , Says The Author Forthrightly And It Shall Be Pretentious To Disagree With Him.While Welcoming The Presence Of Such A Critical And Informative Work, As The Browning Cyclopaedia, One Is Made More Acutely Aware Of Its Value By Browning S Own Observation On His Poems : That My Writing Has Been In The Main Too Hard For Many I Should Have Been Pleased To Communicate With; But I Never Designedly Tried To Puzzle People, As Some Of My Critics Have Supposed. On The Other Hand, I Never Pretend To Offer Such Literature As Should Be A Substitute For A Cigar Or A Game At Dominoes To An Idle Man . Surely, Browning S Poetry Is Not For The Idle Reader. It Challenges Both The Reader S Intellect And Intelligence. And Edward Berdoe S Cyclopaedia Is An Intelligent Reader S Necessary Guide To Browning.
Download or read book Robert Browning written by Philip Drew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1966. This title complies a selection of critical articles by various authors on the poetry of Robert Browning. The editor has collected a number of important general studies of Browning’s mind and art by English and American critics, as well as studies on individual poems. This book will be of interest to students of literature.
Download or read book Men and Women written by Robert Browning and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Browning written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of important older literary criticism of selected works by Robert Browning.
Download or read book Robert Browning Ferishtah s Fancies written by Robert Browning and published by Portable Poetry. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Browning is one of the most significant Victorian Poets and, of course, English Poetry. Much of his reputation is based upon his mastery of the dramatic monologue although his talents encompassed verse plays and even a well-regarded essay on Shelley during a long and prolific career. He was born on May 7th, 1812 in Walmouth, London. Much of his education was home based and Browning was an eclectic and studious student, learning several languages and much else across a myriad of subjects, interests and passions. Browning's early career began promisingly. The fragment from his intended long poem Pauline brought him to the attention of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and was followed by Paracelsus, which was praised by both William Wordsworth and Charles Dickens. In 1840 the difficult Sordello, which was seen as willfully obscure, brought his career almost to a standstill. Despite these artistic and professional difficulties his personal life was about to become immensely fulfilling. He began a relationship with, and then married, the older and better known Elizabeth Barrett. This new foundation served to energise his writings, his life and his career. During their time in Italy they both wrote much of their best work. With her untimely death in 1861 he returned to London and thereafter began several further major projects. The collection Dramatis Personae (1864) and the book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book (1868-69) were published and well received; his reputation as a venerated English poet now assured. Robert Browning died in Venice on December 12th, 1889.
