In the 1880s, the aging Browning showed once again the remarkable versatility of his lyric and narrative talents. Ranging across eras and cultures, the books here reveal his late thoughts about history, myth, legend, faith, love, and desire. He had never been more popular, and the founding of the BrowningSociety in 1881 expanded both his audience and his sense of his place in English letters.The first title in Volume XV is Dramatic Idylls, Second Series (1880). Taking his subjects from classical history, colonial India, Arabian legend, medieval sorcery, Jewish folk tales, and Greek myth,...
In the 1880s, the aging Browning showed once again the remarkable versatility of his lyric and narrative talents. Ranging across eras and cultures, th...
Volume XI of "The Complete Works of Robert Browning" contains two strikingly disparate long poems from the 1870s, "Fifine at the Fair" and "Red Cotton Night-Cap Country." As always in this series of critical editions, a complete record of textual variants is provided, as well as extensive explanatory notes.
Volume XI of "The Complete Works of Robert Browning" contains two strikingly disparate long poems from the 1870s, "Fifine at the Fair" and "Red Cotton...
In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning s known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning s life and career and aspects of Victorian thought and culture.?
With this seventeenth and final volume, "The Complete Works of Robert Browning "concludes the major phase of a great scholarly project: the accurate preservation and transmission of the poet s works for future generations of readers. Volume XVII begins with Browning s last collection of poems,...
In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning s known writing. Th...
