Browning's Sordello and the Aesthetics of Difficulty

ISBN-13: 9780920604335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 150 str.

David E. Latanae; David E. Latane Jr

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Browning's "Sordello" has often been regarded as teh ultimate difficult poem, at least until its twentieth-century successors. It is also usually seen as an anomalous freak of literary history. Browning's early masterwork can be understood best, however, as a mature extension of the poetics of its time, as well as a late-Romantic attempt to write an epical work which must be read both willfully and imaginatively.