The Infinite Moment and Other Essays in Robert Browning / / William O. Raymond.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Raymond, William O.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1950
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

With the exception of the closing essay, the contents of this book represent a garnering of various articles on the poetry of Browning printed during the course of years in scholarly journals. During the sixty-five years after Browning’s death, his poetic reputation varied as widely as in his lifetime, and from the time of the publication of The Ring and the Book in 1868-69 until his death in 1889, his niche beside Tennyson as one of the two master poets of the Victorian era was secure. Criticism was succeeded by panegyric, reaching its acme into the adulation of the Browning society and its mushroom offshoots in England and America. In this second edition, three articles on Browning and his poetry written after the first edition have been added.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Preface to Second Edition -- Contents -- 1. The Infinite Moment -- 2. Browning and Higher Criticism -- 3. "Our Lady of Bellosguardo": A Pastel Portrait -- 4. New Light on the Genesis of The Ring and the Book -- 5. Browning's First Mention of the Documentary Sources of The Ring and the Book -- 6. Browning's Roman Murder Story as Recorded in a Hitherto Unknown Italian Contemporary Manuscript -- 7. Browning's Dark Mood: A Study of Fifine at the Fair -- 8. Browning's Casuists -- 9. Browning's Conception of Love as Represented in Paracelsus -- 10. The Forgeries of Thomas J. Wise and Their Aftermath -- 11. "The Jewelled Bow": A Study in Browning's Imagery and Humanism -- 12. The Statue and the Bust -- 13. Browning and the Harriet Westbrook Shelley Letters -- Notes -- Index