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The Complete Works of Robert Browning
Robert Browning
Jack W. Herring
其他書名
With Variant Readings & Annotations
出版
Ohio University Press
, 1969
主題
Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Poetry / General
Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)
Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN
0821411373
9780821411377
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CeIIAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning's known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning's life and career and aspects of Victorian thought and culture.?
The sixth in the projected seventeen-volume work, this volume covers the second half of
Men and Women
(1855), perhaps Browning's most famous collection, and the entirety of
Dramatis Personae
(1864), the first book Browning produced after the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861.
Men and Women II
contains several great dramatic poems on which Browning's reputation still depends, including "Andrea del Sarto," "Saul," and "Cleon." It also includes the more intimate and personal works "The Guardian Angel" and "One Word More," as well as the mysterious "Women and Roses." The Brownings' shared interests in Renaissance art and nineteenth-century Italian politics inform the challenging "Old Pictures in Florence."
The publication of
Dramatis Personae
was a key event in the rapid rise of Browning's fame in the 1860s, though the collection is marked by a welter of conflicting impulses that arose after the poet left Italy and his married life behind. The classic monologues "Rabbi Ben Ezra" and "Abt Vogler" are here, but beside them Browning placed the nearly surreal "Caliban upon Setebos" and the achingly self-regarding "James Lee's Wife," one of the volume's handful of dramatic lyrics about betrayed or failed relationships. Also included are "A Death in the Desert," which contributed to the intense Victorian debate about scriptural validity and religious authority; and "Mr Sludge, 'The Medium,'" Browning's ferocious, pyrotechnic exposé of a spiritualist fraud.
As always in this acclaimed series, a complete record of textual variants is provided, as well as extensive explanatory notes.
