Selected Poems
Robert Browning - Author
Daniel Karlin - Editor
ISBN 9780140437263 | 352 pages | 01 Apr 2001 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
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Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, and introduces everyday events of the streets and marketplace into the rarified world of Victorian poetry.
This edition includes examples from the early Dramatic Lyrics (1842) and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845); from the masterpieces Men and Women (1855) and Dramatis Personae (1864), and from the less familiar works of his later years. Together they convey the intensity, the lyric beauty, and the vitality of Browning's poetry. Note on the Text Porphyria's Lover Johannes Agricola in Meditation Song from Pippa Passes ("The year's at the spring") Scene from Pippa Passes ("There goes a swallow to Venice...") My Last Duchess Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister The Pied Piper of Hamelin; A Chld's Story "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" The Lost Leader Meeting at Night Parting at Morning Home-Thoughts, from Abroad The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church Love Among the Ruins A Lovers' Quarrel Up at a Villa - Down in the City Fra Lippo Lippi A Toccata of Galuppi's An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician Mesmerism A Serenade at the Villa "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" The Statue and the Bust How It Strikes a Contemporary The Patriot Memorabilia Andrea del Sarto In a Year Cleon Two in the Campagna A Grammarian's Funeral
James Lee's Wife
Gold Hair: A Story of Pornic
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