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Title: The Poetry Of Robert Browning
Author: Stopford A. Brooke
Release Date: December 10, 2004 [EBook #14316]
Language: English
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THE POETRY
OF
ROBERT BROWNING
BY
STOPFORD A. BROOKE
AUTHOR OF "TENNYSON: HIS ART AND RELATION TO MODERN LIFE"
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LONDON
ISBISTER AND COMPANY LIMITED
1903
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Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co. London & Edinburgh
_First Edition, September 1902_
_Reprinted, October 1902_
_Reprinted, January 1903_
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CONTENTS
I. BROWNING AND TENNYSON
II. THE TREATMENT OF NATURE
III. THE TREATMENT OF NATURE
IV. BROWNING'S THEORY OF HUMAN LIFE--PAULINE AND PARACELSUS
V. THE POET OF ART
VI. SORDELLO
VII. BROWNING AND SORDELLO
VIII. THE DRAMAS
IX. POEMS OF THE PASSION OF LOVE
X. THE PASSIONS OTHER THAN LOVE
XI. IMAGINATIVE REPRESENTATIONS
XII. IMAGINATIVE REPRESENTATIONS--RENAISSANCE
XIII. WOMANHOOD IN BROWNING
XIV. WOMANHOOD IN BROWNING--(THE DRAMATIC LYRICS AND POMPILIA)
XV. BALAUSTION
XVI. THE RING AND THE BOOK
XVII. LATER POEMS
XVIII. THE LAST POEMS
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The publishers are indebted to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. on behalf
of the owner of the copyright for their permission to make extracts
from copyright poems for use in this volume
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CHAPTER I
_BROWNING AND TENNYSON_
Parnassus, Apollo's mount, has two peaks, and on these, for sixty years,
from 1830 to 1890,[1] two poets sat, till their right to these lofty
peaks became unchallenged. Beneath them, during these years, on the
lower knolls of the mount of song, many new poets sang; with diverse
instruments, on various subjects, and in manifold ways. They had their
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