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Robert Browning's Poetry [Norton Critical Edition]

by Robert Browning

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Works by modern and Victorian critics are presented together with poems from each stage of Browning's literary career.
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It's not quite fair to Robert Browning that his poetic legacy now lives in the wake of Ezra's Pound's unjust but memorable portrait in "Mesmerism": "You wheeze as a head-cold long-tonsilled Calliope."

How welcome Browning's playfulness seems in the landscape of serious 19th century British poetry. Apart from Byron - who I often think was a late-born Tory satirist - the Romantics are heavy on philosophical pondering, light on jokes. And much post-Romantic verse is either driven by anxieties about social and technological change or retreats into decadence. Both are compelling, but neither is exactly fun.

It's as though the 19th-century novel takes over from poetry the role of wry wit and social satire.

But not Robert Browning. Browning is a delight. ( )
  HumphryClinker | Jun 30, 2021 |
I haven't read all the poems.

I enjoyed the shorter ones, and some of the longer ones, but I generally have a hard time sticking with a poem that goes on for several pages.

A few poems were familiar from college freshman English class.

By the way this book was a Christmas gift. ( )
  CarolJMO | Dec 12, 2016 |
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