
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning
Volume XV: Parleyings and Asolando
Oxford University Press
Published on 20. August 2009
Book
Hardback
536 pages
978-0-19-812351-4 (ISBN)
Description
Volume 15 in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Browning presents poetry Browning wrote in his seventies, his last two volumes: Parleyings (1887) and Asolando (1889). The former is the poet's last sustained meditation on life and on his times, a nine-section credo covering religion, history, poetry, politics, art, and music. Asolando is a coda to his whole oeuvre, a mixture of short love lyrics, historical monologues and anecdotes, light verse, and poems which are quite sui generis, all grouped around the theme of 'fancies and fact'. Both volumes are presented here with previously unknown sources, a wealth of new contextual material, and many textual nuances clarified, giving a fresh view of the last phase of Browning's career. What emerges is a poet more seriously Christian, Protestant, and Liberal than previously supposed, more interested in Britain's destiny and Empire, more enmeshed in the local battles of the 1880s?and a writer of considerable range and wit.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Adult education
Illustrations
8 black-and-white halftones
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
866 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-812351-4 (9780198123514)
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Persons
Michael Meredith is one of the foremost authorities on Robert Browning and his work.
Stefan Hawlin is well known for this critical writings on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, and for his work on previous volumes of the OET edition.
Stefan Hawlin is well known for this critical writings on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, and for his work on previous volumes of the OET edition.
Editor
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Buckingham
General Editor of The Poetical Works of Robert Browning and Eton College Library
Content
List of Illustrations ; References and Abbreviations ; Introduction to PARLEYINGS ; PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY ; Introduction to ASOLANDO ; ASOLANDO