...This chapter explores the re-imagining of the Italian refugee during the early Risorgimento. Victorian works by Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope and Elizabeth Barrett Browning register a new discomfort with Italian place that corresponds to the displacement...

... Literature A Giles imagist movement and poetry Kipling Rudyard Labor Earle Pound Ezra “Strength of the Strong The” Kipling Call of the Wild The imagery and The Call of the Wild “To Build a Fire” creative process poetry aesthetics fiction drama Robert Browning Romantics Readers...

... Browning Robert Weideman Barrett ‘Pen’ C A Daw and Son Carmarthen Marquess of FitzGerald Sarah James Henry Stephen James Fitzjames Zimmern Helen Bronson Katherine King Roma Bagehot Walter Cambridge University of Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning Casa Guidi Ring and the Book Men...

...This chapter reflects on the notion of necessity in relation to freedom. It links Derrida’s remark that deconstruction is both child-like and animal-like with a poem by Robert Browning in which a dog with no master comes to the rescue while educated adult men can do no more than look...

... is distinctive not about music itself but about poetry. Examples illustrate the separation of the two arts and the innate impossibility of expressing one in terms of the other. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues include attempts to translate pieces of music into semantic propositions. Burke Edmund Byron...

... Tradition (1957), which proposed that the irony inherent in Romantic subjectivity developed into Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues, giving rise in turn to the polyphonic modernism of Eliot and Pound. Langley’s earliest poems experiment with fragmentary free verse as a way of giving ‘dramatic...

...The similarity between John Ruskin’s account of Italian Renaissance tombs and Robert Browning’s imaginary tomb in St Praxed was so striking that Ruskin drew attention to it in the fourth volume of Modern Painters. The verse of Browning’s poem ‘The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St...

...: Ashgate, 2013), 67–81. See also Bernard Beatty’s article, “The Bric-à-Brac Wars: Robert Browning and Blessed John Henry Newman,” in the same volume (83–98), for an account of how Browning’s poetry is composed of literary bric-à-brac that resonates with my argument about The Inn...

... The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti Swinburne Algernon Charles ‘Anactoria’ Robert Browning cannibalism Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Christina Rosetti Dante Gabriel Rosetti sadomasochism Algernon Charles Swinburne Lord Alfred Tennyson William Wordsworth The adjectives...

...This chapter identifies the overhearing of the “prisoner next-door” as a Gothic trope essential to Robert Browning’s early dramatic monologues. His early poems often feature dramatic speakers who are mad monks and murderous dukes confessing criminal acts. By entitling his first pair of dramatic...

... Edmund power Romantic ism the Shelleys Mary Shelley Robert Browning Alexis-François Rio Fra Lippo Lippi art poetics subjective poetry objective poetry Hellenism realism Her [Mary Shelley’s] remarks on art, once she lets go of Rio’s skirts, are amazing—Fra Angelico, for instance...

...This book is about the intertextual relationships between the works of the Shelleys and the Brownings. While a lot of research has been done on the relationship between Percy Bysshe Shelley and Robert Browning, virtually nothing has been said about the links between Mary Shelley and Robert Browning...

...This article discusses Victorian poets’ conception of music. It examines the works of several poets including Alfred Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, William Alexander, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Adelaide Anne Procter, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Browning. It argues that Victorian poets do not hear music...

... inherent in poetic form. Several works are considered, including those by Arthur Hugh Clough, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lewis Carroll, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Henri Bergson, Robert Browning, Thomas Hood, Edward Lear, and Algernon Charles Swinburne. Select Bibliography Bowen, John , ‘ Comic...

...This chapter examines a rather embarrassing error in the closing section of Robert Browning's Pippa Passes (1841), where he casually uses a slang word for female genitalia when meaning to refer to part of a nun's clothing. Like Wordsworth, Browning comes by his mistake honestly...

...It has sometimes been asserted that a refusal of straightforward communication is definitive of literature as such, or at least definitive of poetry. Such a definition is however not neutral; it reflects instead a preference for certain poets and poetic styles over others. Robert Browning’s...

...In 1978, Robert Browning wrote an chapter claiming that Byzantines were highly literate. Subsequent studies on Byzantine literacy have sought to either redefine what literacy might have meant in Byzantine circumstances, or determine the number of Byzantines who signed their names on documents...

...This chapter discusses the life and works of Robert Browning after the death of his wife. He consciously entered the last phase of his life after her death and spent the remaining twenty-eight years of his life settling within the established patterns of his time. In this chapter, his elusiveness...

... of poetic language as defamiliarized language formalism Russian Lodge David symbolism symbolist Eco Umberto inter arts criticism translation structuralism stylistics style David Lodge Paul de Man Wilhelm von Humboldt Robert Browning Friedrich Schiller A. E. Housman Metonymy, as the opening...

...This chapter explores the representation of songs within poems, or literal songs, by focusing on Robert Browning’s 1841 verse drama Pippa Passes. It first considers the ‘borrowed’ song as an invention before discussing William Wordsworth’s poem ‘The Solitary Reaper’ to highlight...