
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning
Volume VI: Dramatis Personae
Robert Inglesfield(Editor)
Clarendon Press
Published on 28. May 2025
Book
Hardback
624 pages
978-0-19-812791-8 (ISBN)
Description
The English first edition of Dramatis Personae was published in May 1864, with the American first edition appearing hard on its heels in the following September. This was the second of the two great collections of Robert Browning's middle years--the first, Men and Women, having appeared nine years previously. The new collection, with its inspired general title (which Browning seems to have hit upon only weeks before the publication of the English first edition), was certainly an extraordinary imaginative and technical achievement: the poems are remarkable for their modernity of subject matter and close psychological interest, as well as their assertive individuality of conception. An outstanding feature is the inventive handling of tone, as for example in 'Apparent Failure'. Browning seems to have regarded the collection very much as a continuation and development of Men and Women, with its varied, contrasting dramatic lyrics and dramatic-argumentative poems. As in the earlier collection, the great majority of the poems are essentially 'dramatic' in conception.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
839 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-812791-8 (9780198127918)
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Robert Inglesfield studied at St John's College, Cambridge and taught in the English department of Birkbeck College, University of London, for thirty-seven years. He edited the Clarendon and Oxford World's Classics editions of Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey (with Hilda Marsden) and Volume V of The Poetic Works of Robert Browning: Men and Women (with Ian Jack).
Editor
Senior LecturerSenior Lecturer, Formerly Birkbeck College, University of London
Content
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Text: Textual Signs and Sigla
Abbreviations
Bibliographic Descriptions
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Appendices
Introduction
The Text: Textual Signs and Sigla
Abbreviations
Bibliographic Descriptions
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Appendices