Robert Browning's Language / / Donald S. Hair.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hair, Donald S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

What are the influences that shaped the language used by one of the nineteenth century's greatest writers? How did his religious beliefs, the books he owned, the paintings and music he loved, affect almost sixty years' output of poems, plays, essays, and letters? This book attempts to defi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Texts
• Introduction: ‘Sense, sight and song’
• Chapter One. ‘The world of words’: Johnson, Locke, and Congregationalism
• Chapter Two. Parleying, Troping, and Fragmenting: Pauline, Paracelsus, and Sordello
• Chapter Three. ‘Why need I speak, if you can read my thought?’: The Unacted Drama, ‘My Last Duchess,’ and‘“Childe Roland”’
• Chapter Four. ‘I kept time to the wondrous chime’: Rhyme’s Reason, ‘Love among the Ruins,’ The Inn Album, and ‘Of Pacchiarotto’
• Chapter Five. ‘Adjust Real vision to right language’: The Idealist Goal of Language, ‘Parleying with Christopher Smart,’ ‘Abt Vogler’ and ‘Saul’
• Chapter Six. ‘For how else know we save by worth of word?’: The Ring and the Book
• Chapter Seven. ‘One thing has many sides’: Browning’s ‘transcripts,’ Balaustion’s Adventure and Aristophanes’ Apology
• Chapter Eight. ‘Do you say this, or I?’: Browning’s ‘parleyings,’ La Saisiaz, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, and Fifine at the Fair
• Overview and Conclusion
• Notes
• Index