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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... become politically conservative in his closeness to the regime , acceptance of a government post , and increasingly hysterical fear of the masses of " ordinary men " he had originally tailored his poetry toward . Eventually he would ...
... become politically conservative in his closeness to the regime , acceptance of a government post , and increasingly hysterical fear of the masses of " ordinary men " he had originally tailored his poetry toward . Eventually he would ...
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... become so indebted to the earlier poet in writing Paracelsus as the conscious continuation of Wordsworth's scheme ... becomes a good deal clearer . If Browning was a strong poet , he would have found the self - im- posed burden of ...
... become so indebted to the earlier poet in writing Paracelsus as the conscious continuation of Wordsworth's scheme ... becomes a good deal clearer . If Browning was a strong poet , he would have found the self - im- posed burden of ...
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... become . He still retained his earlier ideals and was troubled by their failure to manifest themselves in the world ; he was not the embittered reactionary that he would later become . Far from reflecting Wordsworth's later collapse ...
... become . He still retained his earlier ideals and was troubled by their failure to manifest themselves in the world ; he was not the embittered reactionary that he would later become . Far from reflecting Wordsworth's later collapse ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A NOTE ON Texts 79 | 9 |
WHY BROWNING AND WORDSWORTH? | 15 |
WORDSWORTH AND BROWNINGS REJECTION | 23 |
Copyright | |
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