The Complete Works of Robert Browning With Variant Readings & Annotations: With Variant Readings and Annotations - Rilegato

Browning, Robert

 
9780821413005: The Complete Works of Robert Browning With Variant Readings & Annotations: With Variant Readings and Annotations
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ISBN 10: 0821413007 ISBN 13: 9780821413005
Casa editrice: Ohio Univ Pr, 1999

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The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X contains critical editions of Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides and Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society. Both published in 1871, these two long poems take up a pair of subjects that held enduring fascination for Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: classical Greek literature and the career of Napoleon III, Emperor of France. Balaustion's Adventure, which the poet characterized as merely a &;May-month amusement,&; was surprisingly successful with the reading public that paid more attention to Browning after the triumph of The Ring and the Book in 1868-69. His first poem since the publication of that masterpiece, Balaustion's Adventure creates a charming and brave narrator who recalls in vivid detail a performance of Euripides' play Alcestis.

Browning began a poem on Louis Napoleon in 1860, but not until after the fall of the Second Empire in 1870 did he attempt a full-scale portrait of the French emperor. As an exercise in self-justification, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau falls into a familiar sub-genre of Browning's dramatic monologues. The most intriguing aspect of the poem lies in its biographical importance: the character and career of Napoleon III was a topic of sustained, sharp disagreement between Robert and Elizabeth Browning.

As always in this acclaimed series, a complete record of textual variants is provided, as well as extensive explanatory notes.

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Editore
Ohio Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1999
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0821413007
ISBN 13 
9780821413005
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
300
Redattore
Dooley Susan E.
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9780821400746: Complete Works of Robert Browning: With Variant Readings and Annotations

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ISBN 10:  0821400746 ISBN 13:  9780821400746
Casa editrice: Ohio Univ Pr, 1971
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