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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Robert Browning."”.
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Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination
Robert Browning’s poetry frequently exhibits the familiar motifs of Gothic literature but the influence of Gothic on his work has never been systematically explored, perhaps because of the genre’s reputation as merely sensational. This study argues for its centrality in the poet’s development. The …
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Critical opinions of Robert Browning as a craftsman 1950-1965.
Robert Browning, the poet, has been treated very fairly by most critics since 1950. He has not been acclaimed uncritically but has been assessed as a poet of his age and time. Critics have noted that Browning paved the way for some later poets. A survey of Browning criticism must be divided between …
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"My barbarous illustrations" : animal imagery in the poetry of Robert Browning.
Park Honan once remarked that Robert Browning's poetry "seems to be packed with references to more animals than probably exist in any city zoo." This dissertation is the product of a comprehensive study not of all animals which appear in Browning's poetry but of those animals used by the poet in …
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Nineteenth-Century Perceptions of Robert Browning: The Poet Through His Own Eyes and Those of His Victorian Critics and Devoted Readers
The London Browning Society has been addressed by scholars in modern biographies such as The Life of Robert Browning: A Critical Biography (1996) by Clyde De L. Ryals, and it was studied in a 1969 book by William S. Peterson titled Interrogating The Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. …
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A collection of books from the Brownings' personal libraries.
… of the collection of books which belonged to Robert Browning or a member of his immediate family and which are now in the possession of Baylor University's Armstrong Browning Library. If books with two or more volumes are counted as one book, the total number of books in the collection is 188. …
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Self-Referential Anxiety in the Romantic and Modern Long Poem
… such diverse poets as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Browning, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Berryman. In works by each of these poets, the author's insecurities about the poem's form and subject matter and about the appropriate role of the poet are articulated through the …
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The life of Fannie Coddington Browning.
… where she became acquainted with the poet, Robert Browning, and his family. Pen Browning, Robert's son, was attracted to Fannie and after a few years proposed marriage. The Coddington family disapproved of the match and in 1875, Fannie returned to New York. There, she dedicated herself to …
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The poetic oeuvre of 'Michael Field': Collaboration, aestheticism and desire in the writings of Katharine Harris Bradley (1846 - 1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862 - 1913)
… figures as Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and Charlotte Mew. Few would now deny that writers such as Barrett Browning and Rossetti are major figures of Victorian poetry, as integral to the canon as Robert Browning, Swinburne or Tennyson, but for nearly a …
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The writing of Betty Miller: 1933-1949
… War. Betty Miller’s bestselling biography of Robert Browning and her non-fiction writing for journals such as Twentieth Century and Horizon in the 1950s, begin to suggest a literary context that draws out the allusions in and influences on her fiction. The seven novels that she wrote between …
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Browning and music: a study of Robert Browning's use of musical structuring principles to unify the dramatic monologues of the <i>Men and Women</i> of 1863 and <i>The Ring and the Book</i>
<p>Robert Browning often insisted that he had studied music seriously and that he knew what he was about when he talked of or wrote about music. Moreover, he claimed that he had given “much attention to music proper…to the detriment of what people take for ‘music’ in his poetry.” Nonetheless, there …
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Recreation and Water Resources: A Critical Analysis of Selected Literature
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