Robert Browning
21st-Century Oxford Authors
Published on 18. December 2014
Book
Hardback
900 pages
978-0-19-959942-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Robert Browning volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is the first one-volume fully annotated edition of Browning to offer a wide selection of work written throughout Browning's career, from the very first poem he published, Pauline, to Asolando, the volume that was published on the day that he died. The text chosen is, wherever possible, the text of the poem as it was first published by Browning himself, and as a consequence the volume also constitutes a kind of biography. It reveals a poet who began as a bold experimentalist, and who continued to experiment throughout a writing career of more than fifty years. Browning is best known for his dramatic monologues, and the dramatic monologues are fully represented in this volume, but he was also a narrative poet, a poet of philosophical reflection, and a poet who fashioned an extraordinary variety of lyric measures. This volume reveals Browning as a far more versatile poet than he is often taken to be. There are two important prose items, an essay on Shelley and a letter to Ruskin which clarify Browning's intellectual stance. The Notes include brief headnotes to each poem followed by detailed annotation. Browning is often a difficult poet, and the notes are designed to assist the reader to arrive at a full understanding of the poems. The volume also includes a general introduction and a detailed chronology of Browning's life and times.
Reviews / Votes
In addition to a useful and judicious selection of Browning's poems, this volume includes three letters by Browning and his "Essay on Shelley." The annotations are learned and lucid. * T. Hoagwood, CHOICE *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12 black-and-white halftones
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight
1241 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-959942-4 (9780199599424)
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Richard Cronin has published very widely on nineteenth-century literature. After teaching for many years at the University of Glasgow, he has recently been appointed to a chair at Oxford Brookes University.
Dorothy McMillan is an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Glasgow, and has published widely with a particular focus on Scottish literature and poetry by women.
Dorothy McMillan is an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Glasgow, and has published widely with a particular focus on Scottish literature and poetry by women.
Content
Acknowledgements ; List of Illustrations ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Chronology ; A Note on the Selection and Its Ordering ; PAULINE: A FRAGMENT OF A CONFESSION (1833) ; FROM THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY, VOL. X, N.S. 1836, 43-44; 45-46 ; [Porphyria's Lover] Porphyria ; [Johannes Agricola in Meditation] Johannes ; BELLS AND POMEGRANATES, NO. I, PIPPA PASSES, (1841) ; Pippa Passes ; FROM BELLS AND POMEGRANATES, No. III, DRAMATIC LYRICS, (1842) ; [My Last Duchess] Italy and France: II. France ; [Soliloquy] Camp and Cloister: II. Cloister (Spanish) ; In a Gondola ; Artemis Prologuizes ; Waring ; The Pied Piper of Hamelin ; FROM HOOD'S MAGAZINE, vol. 1, June 1844; vol. 2, July 1844; vol. 3, March 1845; vol. 3, April 1845 ; The Laboratory ; Garden Fancies: I. The Flower's Name; II. Sibrandus Schnaburgensis ; [The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church] The Tomb at St. Praxed's ; The Flight of the Duchess, sections 1-9 ; LETTER TO ELIZABETH BARRETT, 10 JANUARY, 1845 ; FROM BELLS AND POMEGRANATES, NO. VII, DRAMATIC ROMANCES AND LYRICS (1845) ; How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix ; Pictor Ignotus ; [The Italian in England] Italy in England ; [The Englishman in Italy] England in Italy ; The Lost Leader ; Home Thoughts from Abroad, I & III ; Saul, sections 1-9 ; FROM LETTERS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1852) ; Introductory Essay ; FROM MEN AND WOMEN, I & II (1855) ; I. ; Love among the Ruins ; A Lovers' Quarrel ; Evelyn Hope ; Up at a Villa-Down in the City ; A Woman's Last Word ; Fra Lippo Lippi ; A Toccata of Galuppi's ; By the Fireside ; Any Wife to Any Husband ; An Epistle EL Karshish, the Arab Physician ; Mesmerism ; A Serenade at the Villa ; My Star ; 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' ; Respectability ; A Light Woman ; The Statue and the Bust ; Love in a Life ; Life in a Love ; How It Strikes a Contemporary ; The Last Ride Together ; The Patriot: An Old Story ; Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha ; Bishop Blougram's Apology ; Memorabilia ; II. ; Andrea del Sarto ; In a Year ; Old Pictures in Florence ; In a Balcony ; 'De Gustibus-' ; Cleon ; Two in the Campagna ; A Grammarian's Funeral ; Transcendentalism ; One Word More ; LETTER TO JOHN RUSKIN, 10 DECEMBER, 1855 ; LETTER TO EUPHRASIA (FANNY) HAWORTH, 20 JULY, 1861 ; FROM DRAMATIS PERSONAE (1864) ; [James Lee's Wife] James Lee ; Gold Hair: A Legend of Pornic ; Dis Aliter Visum ; Abt Vogler ; Rabbi Ben Ezra ; Death in the Desert ; Caliban upon Setebos ; Confessions ; Prospice ; Youth and Art ; A Face ; Mr Sludge the Medium ; FROM HELEN'S TOWER, CLANDEBOYE (1870) ; Helen's Tower ; FROM FIFINE AT THE FAIR (1872) ; Prologue: Amphibian ; Epilogue: the Householder ; THE INN ALBUM (1875) ; FROM PACCHIAROTTO (1876) ; House ; Bifurcation ; Numpholeptus ; A Forgiveness ; LA SAISIAZ (1878) ; FROM DRAMATIC IDYLS, 2ND SERIES (1880) ; Pan and Luna ; FROM JOCOSERIA (1883) ; Never the Time ; FROM FERISHTAH'S FANCIES (1884) ; Epilogue ; FROM ANDREW REID, ED., WHY I AM A LIBERAL (1885) ; Why I am a Liberal ; FROM PARLEYINGS WITH PERSONS OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY (1887) ; VI. With Gerard de Lairesse ; FROM THE ATHENEUM, JULY 13, 1889 ; FROM ASOLANDO (1889) ; Development ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Index of Titles and First Lines