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By Robert Browning

ISBN-10: 0821411373

ISBN-13: 9780821411377

ISBN-10: 0821440276

ISBN-13: 9780821440278

In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor collage, this acclaimed sequence gains annotated texts of all of Robert Browning’s recognized writing. The sequence encompasses autobiography in addition to impacts pertaining to Browning’s existence and occupation and points of Victorian inspiration and culture.?

The 6th within the projected seventeen-volume paintings, this quantity covers the second one 1/2 Men and Women (1855), maybe Browning's most famed assortment, and everything of Dramatis Personae (1864), the 1st publication Browning produced after the demise of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861.

Men and ladies II comprises a number of nice dramatic poems on which Browning's acceptance nonetheless relies, together with "Andrea del Sarto," "Saul," and "Cleon." it's also the extra intimate and private works "The mum or dad Angel" and "One observe More," in addition to the mysterious "Women and Roses." The Brownings' shared pursuits in Renaissance artwork and nineteenth-century Italian politics tell the difficult "Old photographs in Florence."

The booklet of Dramatis Personae was once a key occasion within the speedy upward thrust of Browning's repute within the 1860s, notwithstanding the gathering is marked by means of a welter of conflicting impulses that arose after the poet left Italy and his married existence in the back of. The vintage monologues "Rabbi Ben Ezra" and "Abt Vogler" are right here, yet beside them Browning put the approximately surreal "Caliban upon Setebos" and the achingly self-regarding "James Lee's Wife," one of many volume's handful of dramatic lyrics approximately betrayed or failed relationships. additionally incorporated are "A demise within the Desert," which contributed to the serious Victorian debate approximately scriptural validity and spiritual authority; and "Mr Sludge, 'The Medium,'" Browning's ferocious, pyrotechnic exposé of a spiritualist fraud.

As continually during this acclaimed sequence, an entire list of textual versions is supplied, in addition to huge explanatory notes.

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XIV 105 110 115 120 So, testing your weakness by their strength, Your meagre charms by their rounded beauty, Measured by Art in your breadth and length, You learned-to submit is a mortal’s duty. -When I say “you ” ‘tis the common soul, The collective, I mean: the race of Man That receives life in parts to live in a whole, And grow here according to God’s clear plan. Growth came when, looking your last on them all, You turned your eyes inwardly one fine day And cried with a start-What if we so small Be greater and grander the while than they?

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