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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VI: Dramatis Personæ

by Robert Inglesfield
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780198127918
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
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  • Pages: 624
  • Original Price: USD 245.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 840 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

The English first edition of Dramatis Person was published in May 1864, with the American first edition appearing hard on its heels in the following September. This was the second of the two great collections of Robert Browning's middle years--the first, Men and Women, having appeared nine years previously. The new collection, with its inspired general title (which Browning seems to have hit upon only weeks before the publication of the English first edition), was certainly an extraordinary imaginative and technical achievement: the poems are remarkable for their modernity of subject matter and close psychological interest, as well as their assertive individuality of conception. An outstanding feature is the inventive handling of tone, as for example in 'Apparent Failure'. Browning seems to have regarded the collection very much as a continuation and development of Men and Women, with its varied, contrasting dramatic lyrics and dramatic-argumentative poems. As in the earlier collection, the great majority of the poems are essentially 'dramatic' in conception.

Robert Inglesfield, Senior Lecturer, Formerly Birkbeck College, University of London

Robert Inglesfield studied at St John's College, Cambridge and taught in the English department of Birkbeck College, University of London, for thirty-seven years. He edited the Clarendon and Oxford World's Classics editions of Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey (with Hilda Marsden) and Volume V of The Poetic Works of Robert Browning: Men and Women (with Ian Jack).

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