The life of Robert Browning : a critical biography

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The life of Robert Browning : a critical biography

Clyde de L. Ryals

(Blackwell critical biographies, 3)

Blackwell, 1996

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Bibliography: p. [273]-277

Includes index

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Description

Robert Browning is customarily regarded as a dramatic poet whose works are separate and distinct from himself. This biography proposes a different view of the poet and his poems. Every one of his works is regarded in the same way that Browning himself regarded it; as a performance in which the author plays a part, as producer, presenter, or actor, or sometimes all three; and each is examined as part of a constantly revised script entitled Presenting Robert Browning . To Browning life is more than art, but art is teh best way of dealing with what life is all about.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations. Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Growing up in Camberwell. 2. Into the World. 3. Taking Stock: Sordello. 4. Bells and Pomegranates. 5. Courtship and the Early Years of Marriage. 6. At Home and Abroad, 1850-54. 7. Men and Women. 8. The Last Years Together. 9. In London Again. 10. The Ring and the Book. 11. Memory and Desire. 12. Redefining Poetry. 13. Fame is the Spur. 14. An Idyllic Interlude. 15. Looking Backwards and Forwards:The Parleyings. 16. Death in Venice and Burial in London. Epilogue. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index.

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