Browning's HatredsClarendon Press, 1993 - 272 pages The bitter and twisted monk of 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister' is Browning's best-known hater, but hatred was a topic to which he returned again and again in both letters and poems. Daniel Karlin has written a perceptive and original study of Browning's hatreds, and their influence on his poetry. Browning was himself a 'good hater', and Dr Karlin analyses his hatreds of figures such as Wordsworth (the model for his 'Lost Leader'), and more generally, tyranny and the abuse of power, and deceit or quackery in personal relationships or intellectual systems. Tracing the subtlest windings and branchings of Browning's idea of hatred through detailed discussion of key poems, the author shows how Browning's work displays an unequalled grasp of hatred as a personal emotion, as an intellectual principle, and as a source of artistic creativity. Particular attention is devoted to Browning's compulsive and compelling exploration of the duality of love and hate. Browning's Hatreds offers a striking new perspective on one of the greatest poets of human passion in the English language. |
Contents
The Idea of Hatred I | 1 |
Personal Hatred | 25 |
Sludgehood | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
Alfred Domett Alkestis Aristophanes artist Athens Balaustion Balaustion's Book Braccio Brother Lawrence Browning Browning's poetry Caliban upon Setebos Caponsacchi Chiappino Childe Roland comedy creative Dante Dante's dark Dark Tower death dramatic Duchess Duke Edward FitzGerald Elizabeth Barrett England in Italy episode erotic Euripides evil expresses eyes feel fire FitzGerald Florence Fortù God's Guido hand hatred heart Herakles Home Home's human Ixion Jules Jules's Kintner Last Duchess letter light lines look love and hate lover Luria Lutwyche Lutwyche's Lyrics means metaphor monologue moral murder nature o'er Odysseus opposite Ottima Paracelsus Paracelsus's passage passion Phene physical Pippa Passes play poem poem's poet Pompilia Pope Porphyria Porphyria's lover reading rhetorical Ring Rymer seance Sebald sense Setebos sexual Sludge Sludge's social Sordello soul speak speaker spirit suggests takes tells Tennyson things Tower Tragedy truth turn vulgar pigeon wife Woolford and Karlin words Wordsworth wrote
References to this book
Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: A Creative Partnership Mary Sanders Pollock No preview available - 2003 |
Victorian Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary Adam Charles Roberts No preview available - 2003 |