The Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Volume XV: Parleyings and Asolando
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-812351-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 866 g

Volume 15 in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Browning presents poetry Browning wrote in his seventies, his last two volumes: Parleyings (1887) and Asolando (1889). The former is the poet's last sustained meditation on life and on his times, a nine-section credo covering religion, history, poetry, politics, art, and music. Asolando is a coda to his whole oeuvre, a mixture of short love lyrics, historical monologues and anecdotes, light verse, and poems which are quite sui generis, all grouped around the theme of 'fancies and fact'. Both volumes are presented here with previously unknown sources, a wealth of new contextual material, and many textual nuances clarified, giving a fresh view of the last phase of Browning's career. What emerges is a poet more seriously Christian, Protestant, and Liberal than previously supposed, more interested in Britain's destiny and Empire, more enmeshed in the local battles of the 1880s?and a writer of considerable range and wit.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawlin, Stefan

Meredith, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations

- References and Abbreviations

- Introduction to PARLEYINGS

- PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY

- Introduction to ASOLANDO

- ASOLANDO

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Meredith is one of the foremost authorities on Robert Browning and his work.

Stefan Hawlin is well known for this critical writings on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, and for his work on previous volumes of the OET edition.