Browning and WordsworthFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004 - 199 pages Wordsworth's poetry was far more influential upon that of Robert Browning than has hitherto been supposed. Browning read Wordsworth from an early age, and became an admirer of much of his work. In particular, Wordsworth's aesthetic beliefs about the poet's role in the world were as important to Browning's own conception of this role as those of Shelley, whose relationship with Browning has been far more extensively discussed. relationship, which can usefully be seen as a struggle on Browning's part to throw off the burden of influence imposed upon him by his Romantic predecessor. It also puts forward more historical and biographical explanations for some of the relationship's complexities, including Browning's awareness of Wordsworth's rising reputation in the late Victorian period and the responsibilities imposed upon him in his later career by his own position as a literary lion. John H. Baker teaches for the Open University and the University of Westminster in London. |
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... LOST Leader " The misreading of Wordsworth left Browning free to attack his prede- cessor more openly than in that poem . Sordello met almost universal deri- sion and incomprehension upon its appearance , and there is no indication that ...
... LOST Leader " The misreading of Wordsworth left Browning free to attack his prede- cessor more openly than in that poem . Sordello met almost universal deri- sion and incomprehension upon its appearance , and there is no indication that ...
Page 95
... Lost Leader . " It would be published in November 1845 , in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics , and it stands as Browning's most explicit public attack on Wordsworth . Several times later in his career , Browning himself admitted that the " Lost ...
... Lost Leader . " It would be published in November 1845 , in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics , and it stands as Browning's most explicit public attack on Wordsworth . Several times later in his career , Browning himself admitted that the " Lost ...
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... Lost Leader is that he instructed the oppressed masses to bear their burden rather than rise up against their rulers : “ deeds will be done , while he boasts his quiescence , / Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire " ( lines 19 ...
... Lost Leader is that he instructed the oppressed masses to bear their burden rather than rise up against their rulers : “ deeds will be done , while he boasts his quiescence , / Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire " ( lines 19 ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A NOTE ON Texts 79 | 9 |
WHY BROWNING AND WORDSWORTH? | 15 |
WORDSWORTH AND BROWNINGS REJECTION | 23 |
Copyright | |
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