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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... worth's revised poems are plainly inferior to his earlier versions , one must remember that contemporary readers of Wordsworth would not have had the option of using what they knew to be the final authorized text . To these readers ...
... worth's revised poems are plainly inferior to his earlier versions , one must remember that contemporary readers of Wordsworth would not have had the option of using what they knew to be the final authorized text . To these readers ...
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... worth selection and had asked for Browning's advice , Browning said that he believed the first text of a Wordsworth poem was usually the best ; in fact , he went on to say , he found many of Wordsworth's revisions aestheti- cally ...
... worth selection and had asked for Browning's advice , Browning said that he believed the first text of a Wordsworth poem was usually the best ; in fact , he went on to say , he found many of Wordsworth's revisions aestheti- cally ...
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... worth's revisions is more than purely aesthetic . Not only does he attack all the revisions — and , by implication , the older Wordsworth's " diabolic " po- etic instinct ( the " diabolism " is reminiscent of the comparison to Satan in ...
... worth's revisions is more than purely aesthetic . Not only does he attack all the revisions — and , by implication , the older Wordsworth's " diabolic " po- etic instinct ( the " diabolism " is reminiscent of the comparison to Satan in ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A NOTE ON Texts 79 | 9 |
WHY BROWNING AND WORDSWORTH? | 15 |
WORDSWORTH AND BROWNINGS REJECTION | 23 |
Copyright | |
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