The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning: A Literary Life

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University of Missouri Press, 2007 - Literary Criticism - 492 pages
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Signposts Unregarded
1
Chapter 2 The Brownings of Southampton Street
4
Chapter 3 The Education of a WouldBe Poet
13
Chapter 4 Filling the Reservoir
29
Chapter 5 Browning Aspires to Be Shelley
40
Chapter 6 Browning Aspires to Be Shakespeare
50
Chapter 7 A Literary Disaster
59
Chapter 8 Browning as Dramatist for Closet and Stage
69
Chapter 20 The International Life
207
Chapter 21 Dreamwork
220
Chapter 22 Withdrawal into the Creative Life
229
Chapter 23 Spirits from the Vasty Deep
238
Chapter 24 Troubles in London
256
Chapter 25 Men and Women
264
Chapter 26 It is high time that this sort of thing be stopped
274
Chapter 27 That LittleSeeming Substance
282

Chapter 9 Varieties of Poetic Monodrama Dramatic Lyrics
82
Chapter 10 Another Duchess and a Dying Bishop
98
Chapter 11 A Worthy Fellow Poet
109
Chapter 12 Miss Barretts Mysterious Illness
123
Chapter 13 Monodramatic Developments Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
134
Chapter 14 Some Surprises about the Barrett Household
140
Chapter 15 Robert Awakes without a Headache
147
Chapter 16 Flight to Italy
159
Chapter 17 Joys and Sorrows
174
Chapter 18 ChristmasEve and EasterDay
187
Chapter 19 London and Paris
194
Chapter 28 The Good of Poetry
295
Chapter 29 Fathers Sons Books
310
Chapter 30 Complex Poetry
328
Chapter 31 Fame and Its Discontents
352
Chapter 32 At Play in the Land of Souls
376
Chapter 33 House and Shop
393
Chapter 34 English Roses and Florentine Lilies
403
Endnotes
417
Index
477
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