Robert Browning's language

Robert Browning's language / Donald S. Hair.

"What are the influences that shaped the language used by one of the nineteenth century's greatest writers? How did his religious beliefs, the books he owned, the paintings and music he loved, affect almost sixty years' output of poems, plays, essays, and letters?" "This boo...

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Main Author: Hair, Donald S. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
Browning, Robert, > 1812-1889 > Criticism and interpretation.
Browning, Robert, > 1812-1889 > Language.
Browning, Robert, > 1812-1889
Browning, Robert.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Language and languages
Sprache
Taalgebruik.
Electronic books.
e-books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Livres numériques.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 'Sense, sight and song'
  • 'The world of words': Johnson, Locke, and Congregationalism
  • Parleying, troping, and fragmenting: Pauline, Paracelsus, and Sordello
  • 'Why need I speak, if you can read my thought?': the unacted drama, 'My Last Duchess', and '"Childe Roland"'
  • 'I kept time to the wondrous chime': Rhyme's Reason, 'Love among the ruins', The Inn Album, and 'Of Pacchiarotto'
  • 'Adjust real vision to right language': the idealist goal of language, 'Parleying with Christopher Smart', 'Abt Vogler', and 'Saul'
  • 'For how else know e save by worth of word?': The Ring and the Book
  • 'One thing has many sides': Browning's 'transcripts', Balaustion's Adventure and Aristophanes' Apology
  • 'Do you say this, or I?': Browning's 'parleyings', La Saisiaz, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, and Fifine at the Fair.

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