Robert Browning (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Dowden, Edward) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Robert Browning The natural prelude to Dowden´s volume on Browning, here reprinted, is the autobiographical one, to be drawn from his own letters and poems. They reveal what it was that made the interpretation of Browning so congenial, and show how his long intimate acquaintance with his subject rendered the book much more than a literary performance. The references in the letters are casual enough, but they are not the less personally significant. In September 28, 1865, we find him writing, "The great news (if you had heart disease I wouldn´t tell it - I should break it to you) is that Mr. Robert Browning has a new poem forthcoming." He seems to be hesitating over the poet for a moment in the next sentence, but then he rallies to his flag loyally in the next sentence, where he says the greatest men are the ones to live by. In the first flight he puts four - Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante, and Cervantes. Then, in the second flight, follow nine - Wordsworth, Spenser, Chaucer, Milton, Burns, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, and Shelley. After which come honest poets like Clough and Crabbe. Thirty-four years later, on February 22, 1899, he writes from Buona Vista, Killiney, - "I spent all yesterday reading the letters of Browning and Mrs. Browning, which are not a book, but a pair of pulsing hearts (yet veiled by light)." There is also a letter, of an earlier period, which encloses a "dramatic lyric," but written confessedly in the Tennysonian mode, not the Browningesque. When we turn from Dowden´s prose to his verse confession-book, it is to come upon the same fond evidence. He had the art of the disciple when he liked, and he paid the homage of a poet to a favourite master, expressed in terms imaginative and (in the Browning way) dramatic, when he wrote these lines: ... "I sat me down Upon a red stone flung on the red sand, In length as great as some sarcophagus Which holds a king, but scribbled with no runes, Bald, and unstained by lichen or grey moss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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