Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Robert Browning
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Standard Name: Browning, Robert
Used Form: Z
RB
wrote thirty-one books of poetry (excluding numerous collected editions) and became the most influential practitioner of the dramatic monologue in the Victorian period. He also wrote literary criticism and two plays that were staged. His poetry's conversational phrasing, challenging syntax, quotidian imagery, and philosophical preoccupations respond to romanticism and anticipate modernism. He has become one of the most prominent among canonical Victorian poets.
Throughout 1867, JW
suffered from depression, which ran in the family. (The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that much of her time was taken up in caring for family invalids and hypochondriacs and other...
Intertextuality and Influence
Felicia Hemans
Some of the poems in Records of Woman have recently been embraced by certain scholars (including Isobel Armstrong
in Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, who discusses them alongside poems by L. E. L.
Intertextuality and Influence
Emily Faithfull
The novel brings together the fashionable upper-class society which EF
had experienced in her youth, with the question of women's employment which was the burning issue of her working life. She acknowledges the work of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Edna Lyall
In the middle or fourth stage, headed with Robert Browning
's Oh, the little more, and how much it is!
Lyall, Edna. The Autobiography of a Slander. Longmans, Green and Co.
13
the slander sallies forth, by letter, into the wider world, and implicitly threatens Zaluski's...
Intertextuality and Influence
Felicia Hemans
Wordsworth
in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH
as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep.
Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin.
737
Although his...
Intertextuality and Influence
Violet Fane
Another story, The True Story of a Midnight Murder, humorously details the late-night execution of a large mosquito. [F]or the first time in my life, the narrator admits, I knew that I, also, thirsted...
She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning
's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley
plain?
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
prelims
She approaches...
Intertextuality and Influence
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Her poem Any Husband to Many a Wife (whose title marks it as a response to Robert Browning
's Any Wife to Any Husband) is a sardonic comment on marital relations. The husband in...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Stewart
The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
, Robert Browning