Robert Browning’s Poetry

Robert Browning

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics. Routledge, London, 1993.

Browning, Robert. Selected Poetry and Prose. Routledge, London, 1991.

Campbell, Matthew. Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.

Crowder, A.B. Poets and Critics: Their Means and Meanings. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 1993.

Gibson, Mary Ellis, ed. Critical Essays on Robert Browning. G.K. Hall & Co., New York, 1992.

Howe, Elisabeth A. The Dramatic Monologue. Twayne Publishers, New York, 1996.

Ryals, Clyde de L. The Life of Robert Browning: A Critical Biography. Blackwell, Oxford, 1993.

Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. Hogarth Press, London, 1973.

Typo... and some more thoughts

by Arnold_the_Frog, September 01, 2012

"Not best" should be "Nor beat".
I've seen this in Stephen King's citation of the poem at the end of _The Dark Tower_ too.
I read it, went into a mental tail-spin, and worked out what it ought to be just before I
gave up and looked it up (I was right).

... and "stupified" should be "stupefied".

Curious that the commentator doesn't reference Spenser, who is surely the godfather
in English of poems about knightly quests! Indeed, the reference to the Holy Grail
seems in the notes seems like a mere wi... Read more

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