...W. H. G. Armytage Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 SOME NEW LETTERS OF ROBERT BROWNING, 1871-1889 By W. H. G. ARMYTAGE Browning’s letters are fairly exhaustive, and the discovery of those written to Julia Wedgewood between 1864 and 1870 seem...

... as it looked at the beginning of the discontinuous 1980s. NELSONHILTON University of Georgia Robert Browning: His Poetry and His Audiences. By LEEERICKSON. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984. 287 pp. $25.00...

... of Robert Browning. By ROSS POSNOCK.Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. 231 pp. $24.00. No other American or English novelist has been the subject of more comparative studies than has Henry James. Books have been written about the literary or personal relations of James to Henry Adams...

...Nancy Glazener Robert Browning had a powerful following in the United States among readers who came of age during and after the Civil War, but caricatures of the Browning Society have obscured the terms on which he was admired. For many of those readers, a taste for Browning marked a generational...

... educational levels, and he did so for many decades. Less known are his early work as a Browning scholar and his attempt to steer readers of Browning in a “poetical” direction based on close textual study. The history of Alexander’s 1889 Introduction to the Poetry of Robert Browning provides a point of entry...

... reading by generic recognition, a reading of poetry as a form of cognition emerges among later critics like I. A. Richards, who illustrates how a line from Robert Browning is read in the mind’s eye, as if in the present tense. But Browning was already doing a version of historical poetics, in writing “Pan...

..., not theme and representation, at the center of the historically material practices of poetry. For superversive poetics, poems are not only representations but also quite singular machines, devices for body modification. Here the verse repertoire of Robert Browning’s Fifine at the Fair , in particular its...

... and boundaries, Hawthorne twists the genres together again, as do John Keats and Robert Browning. Snakes in The Marble Faun , vines in The Blithedale Romance , and the A in The Scarlet Letter are tangled figures that at once image both the relationship between the genres and the newly powerful nature...

... and categories of genre and style that diasporic, comparative classicists like MacCallum worked without. I would like to thank Leigh Dale and Sascha Morrell for their generosity in editing drafts of this essay. I am also grateful to Robert Dingley for his longtime support of my Browning work, including his...

... Brownings, most recently on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her dog Flush in the collection Aux frontières de l’animal: Mises en scène et réflexivité , edited by Annik Dubied, Juliet J. Fall, and David Gerber (2012), and on Robert Browning and thing culture in Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From...

..., 1935), p. 103 ; G. W. Cooke. -4 Guidcbook to the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning (Boston, 1897), p. 364; Hiram Corson, An Introductiorz to the Study of Robert Browning’s Poetry (Boston, 1886), p. 312 n. Also numerous anthologies and student texts. 2 Brmviitag Cyclopedia (Xew...

...). English Essays of Edward Gibbon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. xix + 650 pp. f 10.50;$33.75. Crowell, Norton B. Reader’s Guide to Robert Browning. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1972. 268 pp. $12.00,cloth; $4.95,paper. Elkin, P. K. The Augzutan Defence of Satire. Oxford...

... Poetical Works of Robert Browning (New York, 1915). 323 324 Humor and Wit in ‘Childe Roland‘ invention here. The normal, uncertain operation of his sense of comedy is illustrated by “A Grammarian’s Funeral,” a poem which for all its brilliance has serious...

.... NELSONHILTON University of Georgia Robert Browning: His Poetry and His Audiences. By LEEERICKSON. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984. 287 pp. $25.00. For approximately the past thirty years consideration of Browning’s speakers vis-a-vis their audiences has been one...

... out of court. But in aesthetic matters, as not in the scientific, the opinion of the humblest (and Brooke is of course not that), if it is considered an honest opinion (and Brooke’s is surely that), 2 Robert Browning (1905), pp. 144-5. 3Poervy of Robert Browning (N.Y pp. 340-3...

...] it would probably be the interesting style of Miss Murray.” Her “imaginative intelligence and delicate appreciation” drew minds away from Wagner’s fierce iconoclasm, eyes and ears toward its for-once-muted display. In an anonymously published pamphlet, Robert Browning ( 1891 : 10) declared Murray “the sole...

... of Poetry. Chi- cago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1966. ix + 170 pp- $5.00. McAleer, Edward C. (editor). Learned Lady: Letters from Robert Browning to Mrs. Thomas FitzGernZd, 1876-1889. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. xii + 232 pp. $5.50. McCoy, Dorothy...

...), 31-44. “The Gothic Spirit in Shakespeare,” South Atlantic Quarterly, XV (July, 1916), 223-240. “The National Growth in Culture,” Journal of National Institute of Social Sciences, I1 (July, 1916), 164-179. The Ring and the Book, by Robert Browning (edited, with Introduc...

... Gilbert, of Economies of Representation, 1790-2000: Colonialism and Commerce (2007). Her book on representations of self-harm in medical, criminological, and literary texts is nearing completion; her project on Robert Browning and the emergence of the study of English, with Jennifer McDonell, has come...

.... Lawson, E. LeKoy. Very Sure of God: Religious Language in the Poetry of Robert Browning. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1974. xiii + 168 pp. $8.95. Leggatt, Alexander. Shakespeare’s Comedy of Love. London: Methuen, 1974. xiii + 272 pp. $12.50, cloth; $6.75, paper. Distributed...