- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classic; Reprint edition (Aug 2 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140437266
- ISBN-13: 978-0140437263
- Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 13 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #676,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Henry James called Robert Browning (1812-89) "a tremendous and incomparable modern", and the sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensures its enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language and introduces the everyday events of the streets and market place into the rarefied world of Victorian poetry.
The selection includes examples from the early Dramatic Lyrics (1842) and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845), from the collections that count as Browning's masterpieces, "Men and Women" (1855) and "Dramatis Personae" (1864), and from the fine, though less familiar, works of his later years. Together they reveal Browning as one of the most intense and constantly surprising poets.
This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and indices.
"He was a poet of misconceptions ... of failures, of abortive lives and loves, of the just-missed and the nearly fulfilled; a poet, in other words, of desire, perhaps the greatest in our language" Daniel Karlin
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About the Author
Robert Browning (1812-1889), the son of a bank clerk, was largely self-taught. In 1846, he married Elizabeth Barrett and lived with her, mainly in Italy, until her death in 1861, at which time he returned to London. Among his best known works is The Ring and the Book, published in 1872.
Daniel Karlin is a professor at University College, London, and editor of The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse.
Daniel Karlin is a professor at University College, London, and editor of The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse.
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one of the greats,
By adead_poet@hotmail.com "adead_poet@hotmail.com" (Beaumont, tx USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Robert Browning: Selected Poems (Hardcover)
Browning is one of the great poets. this selection contains poems such as 'the last dutchess', 'porphyria's lover' and 'childe roland to the dark tower came' which shows browning at his best. this selected poems only whetted my appetite for a complete version.
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The poet of dramatic monologue,
By Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Penguin Classics Selected Poems (Paperback)
This is the opening of one of Browning's most well- known poems "Rabbi Ben Ezra"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith ' A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!' Browning is a poet of the inner life.His dramatic monologues are in the words of F.B. Pinion the editor of the Collins Edition of ' Dramatis Personae' centered on ' the thought- processes and mental outlook of his characters than in dramatic action" The poems are rich in consideration of the moral and religious problems of his time. Lovers of poetry and students of human relationships can certainly be enriched by the reading of these poems. 4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
one of the greats,
By adead_poet@hotmail.com "adead_poet@hotmail.com" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Robert Browning: Selected Poems (Hardcover)
Browning is one of the great poets. this selection contains poems such as 'the last dutchess', 'porphyria's lover' and 'childe roland to the dark tower came' which shows browning at his best. this selected poems only whetted my appetite for a complete version.
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