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Title: The Poetry Of Robert Browning

Author: Stopford A. Brooke

Release Date: December 10, 2004 [EBook #14316]

Language: English

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THE POETRY

OF

ROBERT BROWNING

BY

STOPFORD A. BROOKE

AUTHOR OF "TENNYSON: HIS ART AND RELATION TO MODERN LIFE"

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LONDON

ISBISTER AND COMPANY LIMITED

1903

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Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co. London & Edinburgh

_First Edition, September 1902_
_Reprinted, October 1902_
_Reprinted, January 1903_

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CONTENTS

I. BROWNING AND TENNYSON

II. THE TREATMENT OF NATURE

III. THE TREATMENT OF NATURE

IV. BROWNING'S THEORY OF HUMAN LIFE--PAULINE AND PARACELSUS

V. THE POET OF ART

VI. SORDELLO

VII. BROWNING AND SORDELLO

VIII. THE DRAMAS

IX. POEMS OF THE PASSION OF LOVE

X. THE PASSIONS OTHER THAN LOVE

XI. IMAGINATIVE REPRESENTATIONS

XII. IMAGINATIVE REPRESENTATIONS--RENAISSANCE

XIII. WOMANHOOD IN BROWNING

XIV. WOMANHOOD IN BROWNING--(THE DRAMATIC LYRICS AND POMPILIA)

XV. BALAUSTION

XVI. THE RING AND THE BOOK

XVII. LATER POEMS

XVIII. THE LAST POEMS

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The publishers are indebted to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. on behalf
of the owner of the copyright for their permission to make extracts
from copyright poems for use in this volume

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CHAPTER I

_BROWNING AND TENNYSON_

Parnassus, Apollo's mount, has two peaks, and on these, for sixty years,
from 1830 to 1890,[1] two poets sat, till their right to these lofty
peaks became unchallenged. Beneath them, during these years, on the
lower knolls of the mount of song, many new poets sang; with diverse
instruments, on various subjects, and in manifold ways. They had their