Robert Browning S Language

Author : Donald S. Hair
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487589622

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Robert Browning's Language by Donald S. Hair Pdf

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 : Robert Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Executions and executioners
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004530353

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The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning Pdf

Author : Edward Berdoe
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171560717

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Browning Cyclopaedia by Edward Berdoe Pdf

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.

Author : Richard S. Kennedy,Donald S. Hair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015068820136

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The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning by Richard S. Kennedy,Donald S. Hair Pdf

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning societies. An English poet who was deeply responsive to European culture and affairs, Robert Browning has sometimes been dismissed by modern readers for his obscurity or roughness of language. Now two distinguished scholars of Browning's work trace the arc of his development as an artist and thinker from his earliest poems to the last in his long and remarkably productive career. The authors illustrate how Browning moved from describing "incidents in the development of a soul," to developing his reader's soul as collaborator in the artistic process, to the development of his own soul in the making of poetry. Through a fresh reading of not only his poetry but also the letters of both Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, they have garnered details that situate the two in historical context, provide a vivid sense of Robert's personality, and also correct biases against Elizabeth's influence. Their critical commentary focuses on the poet's dramatic imagination and argues that his extensive body of work after The Ring and the Book--often dismissed as evidencing a decline in his poetic powers--represented new directions in his poetry marked by inventive dialogue, verbal puzzles, and virtuoso rhyming. Written to appeal to both general readers and scholars, the book will enable anyone to read Browning's poems with a firm sense of the subjects and practices that are central to his texts, along with a knowledge of their context in the poet's life and thought. The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning invites readers of a singular body of poetry to achieve a new understanding of Browning's work and a greater appreciation of his life.

Author : Joseph Hankinson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031187766

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Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature by Joseph Hankinson Pdf

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.

Author : Britta Martens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349928743

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The Poetry of Robert Browning by Britta Martens Pdf

Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes him a key figure in the wider field of Victorian studies. This stimulating introduction to Browning criticism provides an overview of the major responses to the poet's work over the last two hundred years. It offers an insightful guide to criticism from various theoretical perspectives, elucidating Browning's participation in Victorian debates about aesthetics, history, politics, religion, gender and psychology.

Author : Mary Sanders Pollock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317201489

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Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning by Mary Sanders Pollock Pdf

First published in 2003, this book examines the creative partnership of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, and provides a critical analysis of the poems written by this famous couple during the 16 year period of their friendship, courtship and marriage. Even quite early in their relationship, the Brownings shared a frame of reference: similar themes, narrative structures, and details of phrasing resonate in their works and suggest dialogue, rather than merely mutual influence. Pollock traces parallels between the Brownings' lives and works even before they met, and then throughout their courtship and married life, suggesting that their creative dialogue continued after Barrett Browning died in 1861, as her presence and themes continued to inform Browning's poetry for at least a decade afterward.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979224048

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Brownings Shorter Poems by Robert Browning Pdf

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.

Author : John Woolford,Daniel Karlin,Joseph Phelan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317864929

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Robert Browning: Selected Poems by John Woolford,Daniel Karlin,Joseph Phelan Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Portable Poetry
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1787376478

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Robert Browning - Ferishtah?s Fancies by Robert Browning Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Robert Browning Pdf

Origin of the Browning Family—Robert Browning's Grandfather—His position and Character—His first and second Marriage—Unkindness towards his eldest Son, Robert Browning's Father—Alleged Infusion of West Indian Blood through Robert Browning's Grandmother—Existing Evidence against it—The Grandmother's Portrait. A belief was current in Mr. Browning's lifetime that he had Jewish blood in his veins. It received outward support from certain accidents of his life, from his known interest in the Hebrew language and literature, from his friendship for various members of the Jewish community in London. It might well have yielded to the fact of his never claiming the kinship, which could not have existed without his knowledge, and which, if he had known it, he would, by reason of these very sympathies, have been the last person to disavow. The results of more recent and more systematic inquiry have shown the belief to be unfounded. Our poet sprang, on the father's side, from an obscure or, as family tradition asserts, a decayed branch, of an Anglo-Saxon stock settled, at an early period of our history, in the south, and probably also south-west, of England. A line of Brownings owned the manors of Melbury-Sampford and Melbury-Osmond, in north-west Dorsetshire; their last representative disappeared—or was believed to do so—in the time of Henry VII., their manors passing into the hands of the Earls of Ilchester, who still hold them.* The name occurs after 1542 in different parts of the country: in two cases with the affix of 'esquire', in two also, though not in both coincidently, within twenty miles of Pentridge, where the first distinct traces of the poet's family appear. Its cradle, as he called it, was Woodyates, in the parish of Pentridge, on the Wiltshire confines of Dorsetshire; and there his ancestors, of the third and fourth generations, held, as we understand, a modest but independent social position....

Author : S. Wood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780333992616

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Robert Browning by S. Wood Pdf

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.

Author : Claude Rawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107495401

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The Cambridge Companion to English Poets by Claude Rawson Pdf

This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen understanding.

Author : Suzanne Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136993336

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Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry by Suzanne Bailey Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Browning,James F. Loucks,Andrew M. Stauffer
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393926001

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Robert Browning's Poetry by Robert Browning,James F. Loucks,Andrew M. Stauffer Pdf

Works by modern and Victorian critics are presented together with poems from each stage of Browning's literary career.