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Dramatic Romances And Lyrics
''Dramatic Romances and Lyrics'' is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1845 in London, as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books entitled ''Bells and Pomegranates''. Contents Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its predecessor '' Dramatic Lyrics'', are different from the ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected works. Since this book was originally self-published in a very small edition, these poems really only came to prominence in the later collections, and so the later titles are given here; see the bottom of the page for a list of the originals. * " How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" * Pictor Ignotus * The Italian in England * The Englishman in Italy * The Lost Leader * The Lost Mistress * Home-Thoughts, from Abroad * Home-Thoughts, from the Sea * Nationality in Drinks * The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church * Garden-Fancies: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Browning
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. His early long poems ''Pauline'' (1833) and ''Paracelsus'' (1835) were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time – his 1840 poem ''Sordello'' was seen as wilfully obscure – and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846 he married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. By her death in 1861 he had published the collection ''Men and Women'' (1855). His ''Dramatis Personae'' (1864) and book-length epic poem ''The Ring and the Book'' (1868–1869) made him a leading poet. By his death in 1889 he was seen as a sage and philosopher-poet who had fed into Victorian social and political discourse. Societi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dramatic Lyrics
''Dramatic Lyrics'' is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled ''Bells and Pomegranates''. It is most famous as the first appearance of Browning's poem ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'', but also contains several of the poet's other best-known pieces, including ''My Last Duchess'', ''Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister'', ''Porphyria's Lover "Porphyria's Lover" is a poem by Robert Browning which was first published as "Porphyria" in the January 1836 issue of ''Monthly Repository''. Browning later republished it in ''Dramatic Lyrics'' (1842) paired with "Johannes Agricola in Meditat ...'', and '' Johannes Agricola in Meditation''. Contents Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its "follow-up" collection '' Dramatic Romances and Lyrics'', are different from the ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected works. Since th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How They Brought The Good News From Ghent To Aix
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" is a poem by Robert Browning published in ''Dramatic Romances and Lyrics'', 1845. The poem, one of the volume's "dramatic romances", is a first-person narrative told, in breathless galloping meter, by one of three riders; the midnight errand is urgent—"the news which alone could save Aix from her fate"—although the nature of that good news is never revealed. Two of the riders’ horses collapse en route; the narrator alone makes it to Aix with the news, and rewards his horse with a drink of wine. In the words of William Rose Benet, it is "noted for its onomatopoetic effects. " Browning himself remarked in a letter, "There is no historical incident whatever commemorated in the poem... a merely general impression of the characteristic warfare and besieging which abound in the annals of Flanders". (Undaunted, an editor of Browning suggested the historical event of the Pacification of Ghent in 1576.) The towns through which th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Leader (poem)
"The Lost Leader" is an 1845 poem by Robert Browning first published in his book '' Dramatic Romances and Lyrics''. It berates William Wordsworth for what Browning considered his desertion of the liberal cause, and his lapse from his high idealism. More generally, it is an attack on any liberal leader who has deserted his cause. It is one of Browning's "best known, if not actually best, poems". Text Context From an early age, Browning (b. 1812) had been an admirer of the (early) works of Wordsworth (b. 1770). As observes, Browning had sought to become "Wordsworth's radical successor", and his attitude towards Wordsworth was "a test model of a strong poet's quest for self-definition against an overbearing predecessor". The poem's lines "We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, / ... / Made him our pattern to live and to die!" refer to this. However, when he began to perceive Wordsworth sliding into conservative politics and the Church of England, he became increa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Thoughts From Abroad
"Home Thoughts, from Abroad" is a poem by Robert Browning. It was written in 1845 while Browning was on a visit to northern Italy, and was first published in his ''Dramatic Romances and Lyrics''. It is considered an exemplary work of Romantic literature for its evocation of a sense of longing and sentimental references to natural beauty. Text Home Thoughts From Abroad is written as a first person, in which the speaker expresses feelings of homesickness through sentimental references to the English countryside. The poem's opening lines are renowned for their evocation of patriotic nostalgia: Browning makes sentimental references to the flora of an English springtime, including brushwood, elm trees and pear tree blossom and to the sound of birdsong from chaffinches, whitethroats, swallows and thrushes. The speaker in the poem concludes by stating that the blooming English buttercups will be brighter than the "gaudy melon-flower" seen growing in Italy. The poem is in two st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Laboratory
"The Laboratory" is a poem and dramatic monologue by Robert Browning. The poem was first published in June 1844 in '' Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany'', and later ''Dramatic Romances and Lyrics ''Dramatic Romances and Lyrics'' is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1845 in London, as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books entitled ''Bells and Pomegranates''. Contents Many of the origin ...'' in 1845. This poem, set in seventeenth-century France, is the monologue of a woman speaking to an apothecary as he prepares a poison, which she intends to use to kill her rivals in love. It was inspired by the life of Marie Madeleine Marguerite D'Aubray, marquise de Brinvilliers (1630-1676), who poisoned her father and two brothers and planned to poison her husband, matching the narrator's actions in 'The Laboratory'.''English and English Literature Anthology for AQAA'' References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Laboratory 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meeting At Night
"Meeting at Night" is a Victorian English love poem by Robert Browning. The original poem appeared in ''Dramatic Romances and Lyrics'' (1845) in which "Night" and "Morning" were two sections. In 1849, the poet separated them into the two poems " Meeting at Night" and " Parting at Morning". In the poem, the speaker is in urgency to meet his beloved and for this he has to travel through the sea at night to reach the beach where his lover is waiting. The poem (like others of the 1845 collection) was written during the courtship period of Browning with his future wife Elizabeth Barrett. Kennedy and Hair describe the poem as the "most sensual poem" he had written up to that time. Background John Kenyon, a distant cousin of Elizabeth Barrett, presented a copy of Barrett's 1844 poems to Sarianna Browning, sister of Robert Browning. Browning, discovering his name in print in the poem volume, wrote a letter to Barrett on January 10, 1845. Upon getting a reply he sent her the manuscr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1845 Poems
Events January–March * January 10 – Elizabeth Barrett receives a love letter from the younger poet Robert Browning; on May 20, they meet for the first time in London. She begins writing her ''Sonnets from the Portuguese''. * January 23 – The United States Congress establishes a uniform date for federal elections, which will henceforth be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. * January 29 – ''The Raven'' by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time, in the ''New York Evening Mirror''. * February 1 – Anson Jones, President of the Republic of Texas, signs the charter officially creating Baylor University (the oldest university in the State of Texas operating under its original name). * February 7 – In the British Museum, a drunken visitor smashes the Portland Vase, which takes months to repair. * February 28 – The United States Congress approves the annexation of Texas. * March 1 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Poetry Collections
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