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Author Kennedy, Richard S

Title The dramatic imagination of Robert Browning : a literary life / Richard S. Kennedy and Donald S. Hair
Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 492 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface ; Abbreviations ; Chapter 1 Signposts Unregarded ; Chapter 2 The Brownings of Southampton Street ; Chapter 3 The Education of a Would-Be Poet ; Chapter 4 Filling the Reservoir ; Chapter 5 Browning Aspires to Be Shelley ; Chapter 6 Browning Aspires to Be Shakespeare ; Chapter 7 A Literary Disaster ; Chapter 8 Browning as Dramatist for Closet and Stage ; Chapter 9 Varieties of Poetic Monodrama Dramatic Lyrics; Chapter 10 Another Duchess and a Dying Bishop ; Chapter 11 A Worthy Fellow Poet ; Chapter 12 Miss Barrett's Mysterious Illness
Chapter 13 Monodramatic Developments Dramatic Romances and LyricsChapter 14 Some Surprises about the Barrett Household ; Chapter 15 Robert Awakes without a Headache ; Chapter 16 Flight to Italy ; Chapter 17 Joys and Sorrows ; Chapter 18 Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day; Chapter 19 London and Paris ; Chapter 20 The International Life ; Chapter 21 Dreamwork ; Chapter 22 Withdrawal into the Creative Life ; Chapter 23 Spirits from the Vasty Deep ; Chapter 24 Troubles in London ; Chapter 25 Men and Women; Chapter 26 "It is high time that this sort of thing be stopped."
Chapter 27 That Little-Seeming Substance Chapter 28 The Good of Poetry ; Chapter 29 Fathers, Sons, Books ; Chapter 30 Complex Poetry ; Chapter 31 Fame and Its Discontents ; Chapter 32 At Play in the Land of Souls ; Chapter 33 House and Shop ; Chapter 34 English Roses and Florentine Lilies ; Endnotes ; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-476) and index
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Subject Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 -- Friends and associates
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 -- Friends and associates
SUBJECT Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 fast
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 fast
Subject Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography
Married people -- Great Britain -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Friendship
Married people
Poets, English
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Hair, Donald S
ISBN 9780826265524
0826265529