qtd. in
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research, 1978–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Robert Browning
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Standard Name: Browning, Robert
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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.
Connections
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| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | Dramatic Studies as a whole was acclaimed by reviewers. A reviewer in the Westminster Review of October 1866 wrote that Mrs. Webster shows not only originality, but what is nearly as rare, trained intellect and... |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | The play was a critical but notThe Athenæum's review criticized AW
for borrowing too heavily for her style from Sir Henry Taylor
and Robert Browning
:The result of this over-fidelity to her model... |
| Literary responses | Ouida | Critic Kenneth Churchill
argues that Ouida was the first English writer to chronicle the sense of growing disillusion |
| Literary responses | Emily Hickey | After reading A Sculptor, Robert Browning
wrote to EH
, I suppose I should be as truly bound to you if you were simply a student of poetry—nowise a proficient in its composition; whereas... |
| Literary responses | Isa Blagden | Henry James
dismissed IB
's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster. qtd. in West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1982. 446 |
| Literary responses | Jane Taylor | Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | A friend of her father's, impressed by her work, sent the poem to Robert Browning
, who responded with a generous and encouraging letter. He criticized her failure to achieve originality, and told her to... |
| Literary responses | Jessie White Mario | After the inaugural lecture, the New York Herald called her words very chaste and poetical and her enunciation clear and distinct. qtd. in Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972. 75 |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | The Athenæum reviewer was not convinced the volume merited publication, pronouncing that the essays stand condemned. Light articles meant to be read and forgotten are not worth republishing in a permanent form, and it is... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | The Dictionary of Literary Biography called Bitter HerbsCADS
's most complex and best volume of poetry. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | In the 1870s and 1880s AW
was mentioned in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic—in Harper's and Scribner's, for instance, as well as in English publications—as one of the leading women poets of... |
| Literary responses | Julia Ward Howe | Many critics praised the poems' raw emotional power. Ednah Dow Cheney
, the only female reviewer, commented on their galvanic effect on the reader, and likened Howe to Robert Browning
. Williams, Gary. Hungry Heart. U Massachusetts Press, 1999. 172-3 |
| Literary responses | Vernon Lee | Shortly after the publication of this book she sent a copy to Robert Browning
, assuming he would appreciate the admiration she expresses for his poetry (The Ring and the Book). In June... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Ogilvy | One critic felt that Mrs. Ogilvy is among those who have listened too long and too submissively to Tennyson
and the BrowningsRobert Browning
. qtd. in Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, 1973, pp. xi - xxiv; 175. xviii |
| Literary responses | Anna Swanwick | Again letters of appreciation poured in, though several people confessedly wrote without, or before, studying the text at all carefully. Robert Browning
wrote, Yours has been a wonderful undertaking. qtd. in Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903. 106 |
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