Life of Robert Browning - A Critical Biography

Informationen zum Autor The author is Professor of English at Duke University. He has written many books on Victorian literature, including Browning's Later Poetry 1871-1889 (1975), Becoming Browning: The Poems and Plays of Robert Browning 1833-1846 (1983), and A World of Possibilities: (Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature (1900) . He is editor of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Walsh Carlyle (1970- ). Klappentext Clyde Ryals's masterful account explores Browning's work from Pauline , his earliest published poem, to Asolando , his last volume, and is the first biographical study in fifty years to treat chronologically and at length the entire Browning corpus. Zusammenfassung aeo Only book published in the last 50 years that treats chronologically and at length the whole Browning corpus. aeo Questions the idea that Browning was an objective! dramatic poet! whose works are distinct and separate from himself. aeo Relates Browning the poet to Browning the man. . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Clyde Diryals, Ryals, C Ryals, Clyde De L. Ryals, Clyde De L. (Duke University) Ryals
• Edition: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 18.02.1996
• EAN: 9780631200932
• ISBN: 978-0-631-20093-2
• Pages: 304
• Thèmes: Blackwell Critical Biographies; Blackwell Critical Biographies; Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets