New York. 1966. July 1966. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451503139. Edited By George M. Ridenour. 464 pages. paperback. CQ313. keywords: Signet Classic Europe England Poetry Literature 19th Century. DESCRIPTION - THE SIGNET CLASSIC POETRY SERIES PRESENTS SELECTED. WORKS OF THE MAJOR BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETS IN AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS EDITED BY OUTSTANDING SCHOLARS. UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE SELECTED POETRY OF BROWNING: Concentrates on the longer poems of this major Victorian poet. The old favorites are well represented but the editor has placed emphasis on the poems that show us the Browning that modern scholarship reveals. Included among the forty poems are 'Fra Lippo Lippi,' 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,' 'Two in the Campagna,' 'The Heretic's Tragedy,' 'A Toccata of Galuppi's' and selections from The Ring and the Book. General Introduction to the special character and development of Browning's poetry by the editor, George M. Ridenour, Professor of English at The University of New Mexico and author of critical studies on Browning, Byron and Coleridge. Chronology of Browning's life. Text printed in the clearest, most readable type. Footnotes at the bottom of page keyed to the text. Extensive bibliography. inventory #28936
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| Author bio | Robert Browning (7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. It was an obscure early poem Pauline that brought him to the attention of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, followed by Paracelsus, praised by Wordsworth and Dickens, among others. In 1846, Browning married Elizabeth Barrett, a poet more highly-regarded than him, and they went to live in Italy, a country that he called my university'. At this time, he took exception to the spiritualist Daniel Dunglas Home and denounced his sEances as fraudulent, though Elizabeth believed them to be genuine. By the time of her death in 1861, his stock was beginning to rise, with a major collection Men and Women, followed by the long blank-verse poem The Ring and the Book. He is better-known today for his shorter poems, such as The Pied Piper of Hamelin and How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. His recital of the latter work during a dinner-party, recorded on an Edison wax cylinder, is believed to be the oldest surviving record by a notable person in England. |
Browning, Robert. The Selected Poetry of Browning
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