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The Poems of Browning: Volume Four - 1862 - 1871 (Hardcover)
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The Poems of Browning: Volume Four - 1862 - 1871 (Hardcover)
Series: Longman Annotated English Poets
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The Poems of Robert Browning is a multi-volume edition of the
poetry of Robert Browning (1812 -1889) resulting from a completely
fresh appraisal of the canon, text and context of his 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 origins and development of Browning's art. Annotations and
headnotes, in keeping with the traditions of Longman Annotated
English Poets, are full and informative and provide details of
composition, publication, sources and contemporary reception.
Volumes one (1826-1840) and two (1841-1846) presented the poems
from his Browning's early years, while volume three (1847-61)
covered the period of his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett and
residence in Italy. Volume four (1862-71) deals with the decade
following Elizabeth's death and Browning's return to England. These
years saw the appearance of some of his most significant work, and
a steady rise in his critical reputation.In Dramatis Personae
(1864), Browning uses his characteristic dramatic mode to expose
predicaments of thought and feeling, in characters ranging from
ShakespeareaaC--(t)s Caliban to the cheating medium, Mr Sludge;
other poems dramatize Browning's complicated feelings about the
deceptions and self-deceptions of romantic love. Balaustion's
Adventure (1871) is an engaging reworking of Euripides' Alcestis,
whose theme, the resurrection of a beloved lost wife, has poignant
personal resonance for Browning;while Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau,
published in the same year, offers a thinly-veiled account of the
life and actions of Napoleon III, the recently deposed Emperor of
France, over whom Browning and Elizabeth had quarrelled. In these
two long poems, Browning can be seen engaged in the dialogue with
Elizabeth that was to shape much of his work during the remainder
of his writing life
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