Delphi Complete Works of Robert Browning (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series, Book 14)
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Overview: Major English poet of the Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture. His most noted work was The Ring and the Book (1868–69), the story of a Roman murder trial in 12 books.
The bulk of Browning’s writing before 1846 was for the theatre; thereafter his major poems showed his increasing mastery of the dramatic monologue. Browning’s fondness for this form has, however, encouraged the two most common misconceptions of the nature of his poetry—that it is deliberately obscure and that its basic “message” is a facile optimism. Neither of these criticisms is groundless; both are incomplete.
But even when individual problems of style and technique have been resolved, the poems’ interest is seldom exhausted. First, Browning often chooses an unexpected point of view, especially in his monologues, thus forcing the reader to accept an unfamiliar perspective. Second, he is capable of startling changes of focus within a poem. And third, because Browning seldom presents a speaker without irony, there is a constant demand on the reader to appreciate exactly the direction of satiric force in the poem.
During Browning’s lifetime, critical recognition came rapidly after 1864; and, although his books never sold as well as his wife’s or Tennyson’s, he thereafter acquired a considerable and enthusiastic public. He has influenced many modern poets, such as Robert Frost and Ezra Pound, partly through his development of the dramatic monologue, with its emphasis on the psychology of the individual and his stream of consciousness, but even more through his success in writing about the variety of modern life in language that owed nothing to convention. As long as technical accomplishment, richness of texture, sustained imaginative power, and a warm interest in humanity are counted virtues, Browning will be numbered among the great English poets.
Genre: Poetry; Victorian Poetry; Drama; Literary Correspondeces
This volume presents the complete works of Robert Browning, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material.
CONTENTS:
The Poetry Collections
PAULINE: A FRAGMENT OF A CONFESSION
SORDELLO
BELLS AND POMEGRANATES NO. III: DRAMATIC LYRICS
BELLS AND POMEGRANATES NO. VII: DRAMATIC ROMANCES AND LYRICS
CHRISTMAS-EVE AND EASTER-DAY
MEN AND WOMEN
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
THE RING AND THE BOOK
BALAUSTION’S ADVENTURE
PRINCE HOHENSTIEL-SCHWANGAU, SAVIOUR OF SOCIETY
FIFINE AT THE FAIR
RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY
ARISTOPHANES’ APOLOGY
THE INN ALBUM
PACCHIAROTTO, AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER
LA SAISIAZ AND THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC
DRAMATIC IDYLLS
DRAMATIC IDYLLS: SECOND SERIES
JOCOSERIA
FERISHTAH’S FANCIES
PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY
ASOLANDO
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Plays
PARACELSUS
STRAFFORD
BELLS AND POMEGRANATES NO. I: PIPPA PASSES
BELLS AND POMEGRANATES NO. II: KING VICTOR AND KING CHARLES
BELLS AND POMEGRANATES NO. IV: THE RETURN OF THE DRUSES
BELLS AND POMEGRANATES NO. V: A BLOT IN THE ‘SCUTCHEON
BELLS AND POMEGRANATES NO. VI: COLOMBE’S BIRTHDAY
BELLS AND POMEGRANATES NO. VIII: LURIA AND A SOUL’S TRAGEDY
HERAKLES
THE AGAMEMNON OF AESCHYLUS
The Letters
LIST OF LETTERS FROM 1845 TO 1846
The Biographies
ROBERT BROWNING by G.K. Chesterton
LIFE OF ROBERT BROWNING by William Sharp
LIFE AND LETTERS OF ROBERT BROWNING by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
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