202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1972. Browning was a keen observer and dramatic recorder of nineteenth-century European culture; his poetry reflects a wide range of intellectual, religious and artistic issues of his day. Roy E. Gridley shows here that during the six decades of Browning’s active writing career (1832-89), his poetry is a record and an interpretation of the changing modes of thought, feeling and... Read more

Note on the Text;  1. A Context for Browning’s Early Life: 1812-32  2. The Eighteen-Thirties  3. The Eighteen-Forties  4. The Eighteen-Fifties  5. The Eighteen-Sixties: I  6. The Eighteen- Sixties: II  7. The Eighteen-Seventies and Eighties  8. Browning among the Modern Poets;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

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Roy E. Gridley