The complete critical guide to Robert Browning

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Acknowledgments. Abbreviations and referencing. Introduction Part I - LIFE AND CONTEXTS a. The Early Years: 1812-1832 - Childhood Adolescent Rehabilitation b. The Young Writer: 1832-1846 - First Works The Theatre: a dead end? First Journeys to Italy Courtship Elizabeth Barrett c. The Italian Years: 1846-1861 - 'Italy...my University' Italy, Creativity, and Love d. Widowerhood and Old Age: 1861-1889 - Recognition at Last The 'Saturated, Sane' Public Man Interpretations. Further Reading. Part II - WORK a. Early Long Poems - Pauline Paracelsus Sordello Conclusions. Further Readings b. The Dramatic Monologue. Further Readings c. Dramatic lyrics and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics - My Last Duchess Pictor Ignotus Porphyria's Lover Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, The Bishop Orders his Tomb Count Gismond The Lost Leader. Further Reading d. Men and Women and Dramatis Personae - Poems about Art Poems of Religion Poems of Love. Further Reading e. The Ring and the Book - Basic Considerations Characters and Moral Formations Pompilia and Caponsacchi. Further Reading f. The Late Poetry - Red Cotton Night-Cap Country Ivan Ivanovitch The Parleying with Gerard de Lairesse Beatrice Signorini. Further Reading Part III - CRITICSM a. In and Out of the Canon: 1889-1979 b. Responses to the Early Long Poems - Pauline paracelsus Sordello c. The Early Monologues: A Variety of Approaches - Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister: 'Indeterminacy of Interpretation' Towards Feminist Readings of Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess Artist in the Marketplace-A Marxist View of Pictor Ignotus Rescuing Andromeda: Ironic and Heroic Readings of Count Gimond d. The Middle-Period Work - A Toccata of Galuppi's vs Historical Readings Historical Readings of Fra Lippo Lippi Childe Roland: Psychoanalytic vs Historical Readings The Heretic's Tragedy and the Grotesque e. The Ring and the Book: a Novel Poem. Further Reading Chronology. Bibliography. Index