The Poems of Browning: Volume One

The Poems of Browning: Volume One PDF

Author: John Woolford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 1317873165

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The Poems of Browning is the first collected edition to be based on the earliest printed texts, and to present these texts in order of their composition.Together, volumes I and II provide an authoritative and accessible tribute to this great poet. Volume I, 1826-1840 traces Browning's career up to the writing of Sordello. It includes his only surviving juvenilia: The Dance of Death and The First-Borm of Egypt; Pauline, his first anonymous publication, and Paracelsus, the poem which made his literary reputation.

Browning's Sordello and the Aesthetics of Difficulty

Browning's Sordello and the Aesthetics of Difficulty PDF

Author: David E. Latané

Publisher: English Literary Studies

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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Browning's Sordello has often been regarded as teh ultimate difficult poem, at least until its twentieth-century successors. It is also usually seen as an anomalous freak of literary history. Browning's early masterwork can be understood best, however, as a mature extension of the poetics of its time, as well as a late-Romantic attempt to write an epical work which must be read both willfully and imaginatively.

Dante's Poets

Dante's Poets PDF

Author: Teodolinda Barolini

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1400853214

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By systematically analyzing Dante's attitudes toward the poets who appear throughout his texts, Teodolinda Barolini examines his beliefs about the limits and purposes of textuality and, most crucially, the relationship of textuality to truth. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.