Overview

With the exception of the closing essay, the contents of this book represent a garnering of various articles on the poetry of Browning printed during the course of years in scholarly journals. During the sixty-five years after Browning's death, his poetic reputation varied as widely as in his lifetime, and from the time of the publication of The Ring and the Book in 1868-69 until his death in 1889, his niche beside Tennyson as one of the two master poets of the Victorian era was secure. Criticism was succeeded by panegyric, reaching its acme into the adulation of the Browning society and its mushroom offshoots in England and America. In this second edition, three articles on Browning and his poetry written after the first edition have been added.

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"""The book represents the sum of Professor Raymond's contribution to the study of Browning, and as such cannot fall to command respect...It is a measure of Professor Raymond's value as a critic that his contributions have long been included within the main body of Browning scholarship."" Times Literary Supplement ""Whenever Professor Raymond argues a controversial point he does so with such clarity and skill that his case cannot be ignored. Through his essays on ""Browning and Higher Criticism"" and ""Browning's Casuists,"" he had added much to our knowledge of Browning's intellectual and religious development and of its repercussion on his poetry."" University of Toronto Quarterly ""These essays provide a two-fold purpose. A large section of them will be appreciated by the average reader who desired either an introduction to, or a general revaluation of Robert Browning, by a recognized authority."" Globe and Mail"

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William O. Rayond was a Church of England clergyman and historian, and came to be identified as the quintessential historian of the loyalist generation in New Brunswick. He was appointed archdeacon of Saint John in 1908 and contributed to many scholarly periodicals and newspapers.

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