Robert Browning: Essays and Thoughts
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 ...
... Four Plays; the probability that he had read Four Plays is enhanced by the fact that it was publ. in 1840 by Moxon, B.'s publisher, in a collection of the Beaumont and Fletcher plays (ed. G. Darley): in fact, it was the format of this ...
A collection of critical essays assesses Browning's techniques, achievements, and place in literary history.
... poem's key themes, of time, emotion, materialism and the will, especially as they relate to the topic of religion. For Gandolf shall not choose but see and burst! 50 Swift as a weaver's shuttle fleet our years: Man goeth to the grave ...