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Browning's Later Poetry, 1871-1889

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Browning's Later Poetry, 1871-1889

By: Clyde de L. Ryals

Maintaining that Browning's later work has been underestimated, Professor Ryals gives close, sophisticated readings of the individual poems, covering each of the published volumes from Balaustion's Adventure through Asolando. He emphasizes the overall structure of a poem and the manner in which themes and ideas are presented. The later Browning is portrayed as "a poet intent upon discovering forms that would give shape and meaning to thought and experience.

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Cornell University Press

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1501743228

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9781501743221

Theme and Symbol in Tennyson's Poems to 1850

By: Clyde de L. Ryals

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Theme and Symbol in Tennyson's Poems to 1850

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One of Keats' finest sonnets begins: "Much have I traveled," yet Keats traveled very little, only to Italy where he died. Shelley, also an introspective and intellectual, dabbled in politics, often with a comic effect and although he could not swim, he was devoted to sailing. Wordsworth marched to France, praising the Revolution, which he later regretted. Coleridge wandered to Germany and German metaphysics. Later he created the Ancient Mariner which is the mythic centerpiece of the Romantic period. Each of these poets feels that the occupation of a poet demand a dedication to a life of action as well as inward discovery. Consequently, the image of "the journey," with its double reference to natural and psychic realities, is one of the unifying motifs of nineteenth-century poetry. Alfred Tennyson, the author claims, was one of the last poets able to make both voyages, but he could only do so with great effort and at great expense. By nature introspective , he found the life of the mind far more appealing than the life of action; yet he knew, like Milton and Keats before him, that great poetry demands the voyage without as well as the voyage within. His early poetry, then, is concerned with the pull of the two voyages, and thus it becomes, in Arnold's worlds, the dialogue of the mind with itself. There is for modern readers something intensely interesting about such a divided personality, for we see in Tennyson almost the same dilemma that faces contemporary artists. Often when we read his poems we feel that Tennyson is of our age. But then at times he seems as remote from us as Bishop Wilberforce and his anti-Darwin fulminations. What, then, is there about Tennyson that makes him appear so modern and yet so dated? The answer is not easily given, although this has been one of the primary concerns of Tennyson's critics. In this book, the author shows how Tennyson became the mental voyager exploring both the inner and outer worlds, and further, how in making the two voyages he followed the pattern of development of other Romantic artists of the nineteenth century. He examines certain themes and images in Tennyson's early verse which in their frequent recurrence attain symbolic status, and by doing so, he shows that there is a very clear-cut pattern in Tennyson's poetry, one which is repeated time and again throughout the poet's work to 1850.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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151280620X

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9781512806205

A World of Possibilities

Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature

By: Clyde de L. Ryals

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Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature

By: Clyde de L. Ryals

A study of how romantic irony characterizes works, in various genres, by Carlyle, Thackeray, Browning, Arnold, Dickens, Tennyson, and Pater. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Ohio State University Press

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0814205224

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Theme and Symbol in Tennyson's Poems to 1850

By: Clyde de L. Ryals

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The Life of Robert Browning

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The Life of Robert Browning

By: Clyde De L. Ryals

Robert Browning is customarily regarded as a dramatic poet whose works are separate and distinct from himself. This biography proposes a different view of the poet and his poems. Every one of his works is regarded in the same way that Browning himself regarded it; as a performance in which the author plays a part, as producer, presenter, or actor, or sometimes all three; and each is examined as part of a constantly revised script entitled Presenting Robert Browning d. To Browning life is more than art, but art is teh best way of dealing with what life is all about.

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0631200932

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Browning's Later Poetry, 1871-1889

Browning's Later Poetry, 1871-1889

Theme and Symbol in Tennyson's Poems to 1850

Theme and Symbol in Tennyson's Poems to 1850

A World of Possibilities

A World of Possibilities

Theme and Symbol in Tennyson's Poems to 1850

Theme and Symbol in Tennyson's Poems to 1850

The Life of Robert Browning

The Life of Robert Browning

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