Author:
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Edition Statement:2nd ed.
Imprint:New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2007.
Descriptionx, 689 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Criticisms: Victorian views. - Evidences odf a new genius for dramatic poetry / John Forster. - Letter to Browning / Thomas Carlyle. - Review of Men and Women / George Eliot. - Browning's alleged carelessness / William Morris. - Browning and the Italian Renaissance / John Ruskin. - Browning's Grotesque Art . Walter Bagehot. - The Ring and the Book / Robert W. Buchanan. - The poetry of the period: Mr Browning / Alfred Austin. - Browning's obscurity / Algernon Charles Swinburne. Strictures on Browning / Gerard Manley Hopkins. - Browning as "Writer of Fiction" / Oscar Wilde. - Browning in Wesminster Abbey / Henry James.
Note:Criticism, Modern essays in criticism. - The dramatic monologue: sympathy versus Judgement / Robert Langbaum. - Dramatic monologue and the Overhearing of Lyric / Herbert Tucker. - The politics of dramatic form / Isobel Armstrong. - The pragmatics of silence, and the figuration of the Readers in Browning's dramatic monologues / Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor. - Browning's Pygmalion and the Revenge of Galatea / Catherine Maxwell. - Browning's poetry of Intamacy / Daniel Karlin.
Note:Interpretations of poems. - Browning's "A Toccata of Galuppi's How Venice Once Was Dear" / Stefan Hawkins. - "Childe Rowland": All things deformed and broken / Harold Bloom. - Andrea del Sarto's Modesty / Eric Gray. - "Caliban" and primitive language / Isobel Atrmstrong. - "Pompilia": The woman in question / Susan Brown.
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