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| Summary: | "In the 1880s, the aging Browning showed once again the remarkable versatility of his lyric and narrative talents. Ranging across eras and cultures, the books here reveal his late thoughts about history, myth, legend, faith, love, and desire. He had never been more popular, and the founding of the Browning Society in 1881 expanded both his audience and his sense of his place in English letters. The first title in Volume XV is Dramatic Idylls, Second Series (1880). Taking his subjects from classical history, colonial India, Arabian legend, medieval sorcery, Jewish folk tales, and Greek myth, Browning startles the reader with the rapidity of his thought and the inventiveness of his art. In Jocoseria (1883) Browning's subjects range across time and space from Hebraic legend to the England of the Romantics. Such variety helped attract new readers: Jocoseria was immediately successful, and a second edition was printed in the same year as the first. Although Browning's next volume, Ferishtah's Fancies (1884), was so popular that three editions were printed in less than two years, this artful string of anecdotes and lyrics has attracted little favorable criticism. The materials--Persian legends and Arabic backgrounds--chimed with the wildly popular Orientalism of FitzGerald's Rubáiyát, Whistler's Peacock Room, and Alma-Tadema's paintings. But the thought was pure Browning in his most optimistic vein, and not at all in tune with the growing pessimism of the day. As always in this series of critical editions, a complete record of textual variants is provided, as well as extensive explanatory notes."--Publisher's description.
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| Item Description: | Vol. 6: Edited by John C. Berkey, Allan C. Dooley, Susan E. Dooley.
Vol. 7-8: General editor, Jack W. Herring.
Vol. 10: Edited by Allan C. Dooley, Susan E. Dooley.
Vol. 11: Edited by Michael Bright.
Vol. 12: Edited by Rita S. Patteson, Paul D.L. Turner.
Vol. 13: Edited by Ashby Bland Crowder.
Vol. 14: Edited by John C. Berkey [and others].
Vol. 15: Edited by Allan C. Dooley, David Ewbank.
Vol. 16: Edited by Susan Crowl, Roma A. King, Jr.
Vol. 17: Edited by Ashby Bland Crowder, Allan C. Dooley.
Volumes 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17 have imprint: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press.
Volumes 9, 11, 13, 15-16 have imprint: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press. |
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| Physical Description: | 17 volumes : portraits ; 25 cm
Also issued online. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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| ISBN: | 0821401157
9780821401156
0821411373
9780821411377
0821402307
9780821402306
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9780821402207 |
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| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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