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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Page 35
... wish that he may be " priest and lover , as of old , " and in the 1888–89 edition Browning changed " lover " to the more extreme " prophet , " pointing out how far his younger self would have to go in order to free himself from elitism ...
... wish that he may be " priest and lover , as of old , " and in the 1888–89 edition Browning changed " lover " to the more extreme " prophet , " pointing out how far his younger self would have to go in order to free himself from elitism ...
Page 143
... wish to use “ di- vine " powers to help the people of Syracuse . The rules he must obey have no place for murder : But he hath overleap'd the eternal bars ; And , following guides whose craft holds no consent With aught that breathes ...
... wish to use “ di- vine " powers to help the people of Syracuse . The rules he must obey have no place for murder : But he hath overleap'd the eternal bars ; And , following guides whose craft holds no consent With aught that breathes ...
Page 186
... wish to spit upon and kick the unfortunate ( and dead ) Fitzgerald . 50. Browning is said to have threatened to hurl " a bottle of claret " ( the contents of which one suspects he had sampled extensively during the evening ) at Forster ...
... wish to spit upon and kick the unfortunate ( and dead ) Fitzgerald . 50. Browning is said to have threatened to hurl " a bottle of claret " ( the contents of which one suspects he had sampled extensively during the evening ) at Forster ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A NOTE ON Texts 79 | 9 |
WHY BROWNING AND WORDSWORTH? | 15 |
WORDSWORTH AND BROWNINGS REJECTION | 23 |
Copyright | |
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