The Life of Robert Browning
A Critical Biography
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1993
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-55786-149-8 (ISBN)
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-55786-149-8 (ISBN)
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Explores Browning's work from his earliest published poem, "Pauline", to his last volume, "Asolando". Ryals opposes the conventional view that Browning was a dramatic poet who stood at an objective distance from his writing, and presents him as a writer who was both objective and subjective.
Clyde Ryals's account explores Browning's work from his earliest published poem, "Pauline", to his last volume, "Asolando". It examines, chronologically and at length, his entire literary output, and aims to set Browning firmly within the context of his poems and his times. Browning has always been regarded as a dramatic poet who stands at an objective distance from his writing. Professor Ryals, however, proposes a different view, and presents him as a writer who was both objective and subjective. He shows how each poem is, as Browning termed it, a performance in which the poet plays a part - as producer, presenter, or actor, and sometimes all three. We discover the role each poetic performance played in Browning's own "self-fashioning" and learn how the principle of endless becoming stood at the very heart of his thought and practice as a poet.
Clyde Ryals's account explores Browning's work from his earliest published poem, "Pauline", to his last volume, "Asolando". It examines, chronologically and at length, his entire literary output, and aims to set Browning firmly within the context of his poems and his times. Browning has always been regarded as a dramatic poet who stands at an objective distance from his writing. Professor Ryals, however, proposes a different view, and presents him as a writer who was both objective and subjective. He shows how each poem is, as Browning termed it, a performance in which the poet plays a part - as producer, presenter, or actor, and sometimes all three. We discover the role each poetic performance played in Browning's own "self-fashioning" and learn how the principle of endless becoming stood at the very heart of his thought and practice as a poet.
Growing up in Camberwell; into the world; taking stock - "Sordello"; "Bells and Pomegranates"; courtship and the early years of marriage; at home and abroad, 1850-54; "Men and Women"; the last years together; in London again; "The Ring and the Book"; memory and desire; redefining poetry; fame is the spur; an idyllic interlude; looking backwards and forwards - the "Parleyings"; death in Venice and burial in London.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.4.1993 |
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Reihe/Serie | Blackwell Critical Biographies |
Zusatzinfo | bibliography, index |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-55786-149-8 / 1557861498 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-55786-149-8 / 9781557861498 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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