... Childe Roland's dreamlike logic can accommodate a bewildering array of images drawn from Browning's reading - from Jack and the Beanstalk to Dante to the brutal industrial landscape lying behind Elizabeth's The Cry of the Children . In ...
... poem ; an earlier biographer , Betty Miller , attributes the anxiety to Browning's feeling of guilt for having failed to fully express his great poetic gifts . Like Coleridge's Kubla Khan , Childe Roland's dreamlike logic can ...
... poem that reaches its logical conclusion in Browning's 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' (1855). More conscious even than Keats's of its belatedness, Browning's poem is a metaromance in which failure is the very object of the quest ...
The Dialectical Temper: The Rhetorical Art of Robert Browning
Jones' other works include a transcription of an Asiatic manuscript on Egypt and the Nile and another on Persian ... Andrew Bednarski and W. Benson Harer, “The Explorations of Frederic Cailliaud,” SAW (January/February 2013), 36–41. 39.
... poem of which this line is the climax we miss any information which would enable us to make certain logical sense of when , and why , and indeed who came to the tower , and what and where the tower is . Who might Roland be ? Is he the ...
... Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” as a dream poem of its own logic with a psychological credibility/curiosity in its own context. Such examination of the poem has been done in line with what has been described as the traditional ...
Selected Poetry and Prose Robert Browning Aidan Day. Introduction - One of the best known of Browning's poems - " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came " first published in 1855 when Browning was 43 is also one of his most enigmatic . In ...
The Book of Lost Things.
Dale Salwak, Philip Larkin: The Man and his Work, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989, 140-149. ... Zachary Leader, The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and Their Contemporaries, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009, 177-186.