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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.

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Author:   Richard Cronin (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, Oxford Brookes University) ,  Dorothy McMillan (Honorary Research Fellow, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 5.30cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   1.227kg
ISBN:  

9780199599424

ISBN 10:   0199599424
Pages:   900
Publication Date:   18 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

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 Dîs 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

Reviews

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 *

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

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 *

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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.

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