Browning (Routledge Author Guides)

Roy E. Gridley

ISBN 10: 0710073690 / ISBN 13: 9780710073693

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London/ U.S.A., 1972

About this Item

Paperback. Previous owners name, address and date neatly written in pen to inside cover. Where the Author Guides series may be seen to differ from other, apparently similar, series, is in its historical emphasis, which will be particularly evident in the treatment of the great literary writers, where we are trying to establish, in so fas as this can be done, the social and historical context of the writers life and times, and the cultural and inetellectual tradition in which he stands, always remembering that critical and interpretative principles are implicit to any sound historical approach. 192 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Browning (Routledge Author Guides)
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London/ U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710073690
• ISBN 13: 9780710073693
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature,classics Poetry and Plays

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Synopsis

First published in 1972. Browning was a keen observer and dramatic recorder of nineteenth-century European culture; his poetry reflects a wide range of intellectual, religious and artistic issues of his day. Roy E. Gridley shows here that during the six decades of Browning’s active writing career (1832-89), his poetry is a record and an interpretation of the changing modes of thought, feeling and expression of nineteenth-century life. Browning was a ‘romantic’ who, by virtue of his realistic and often revolutionary poetry, became a ‘modern’, and had considerable influence on writers such as Yeats, Eliot and Pound. While surveying the whole of Browning’s life and work, Gridley focuses closely on the more famous poems, examining them as documents that give the general reader a deeper appreciation of the richness and diversity of life in Victorian Europe.