Robert Browning

Excerpt: "These selections from the poetry of Robert Browning have been made with especial reference to the tastes and capacities of readers of the high-school age. Every poem included has been, found by experience to be within the grasp of boys and girls. Most of Browning's best poetry is within the ken of any reader of imagination and diligence. To the reader who lacks these, not only Browning, but the great world of literature, remains closed:...

Junto a Chaucer y Shakespeare, Robert Browning (1812-1889) fue considerado por Ezra Pound como uno de los tres grandes hitos de la literatura británica de todos los tiempos. La hondura psicológica y las innovaciones formales que introdujo en el discurso poético, dejaron huella profunda en la lírica inglesa y norteamericana del siglo XX, desde el propio Pound y T.S. Eliot a Louis Zukofsky o John Ashbery, pasando por Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell...

Christmas-Eve is a long poem by English author Robert Browning (1812-1889). It was published in 1850. Christmas Eve was the first work published by the author after his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and their departure for Italy and it shows the influence of his wife's religious beliefs.

AN OLD STORY. It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad: The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway, The church-spires flamed, such flags they had, A year ago on this very day. The air broke into a mist with bells, The old walls rocked with the crowd and cries. Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels-But give me your sun from yonder skies!" They had answered, "And afterward, what else?" Alack, it was I who leaped at the...

An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Robert Browning and Hiram Corson libreka classics — These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

A selection of Robert Browning's dramatic monologues. In "My Last Duchess," an entitled nobleman shows off a portrait of his late wife. In "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," a frustrated monk dwells on a petty rivalry. In "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's," a dying man instructs his family in how to elevate his final resting place above that of his rival's. In "Porphyria's Lover," a sinister narrator considers how to preserve the...

Seventy-one poems are included from these two influential poets of nineteenth century England who were also man and wife. The poetry reveals their passion, ideas, and dedication to social causes. This two-CD set offers the listener a convenient way to hear favorite poems of Elizabeth easilyand find the preferred poetry of Robert with maximum accessibility. Included among the poems of Robert are "Love among the Ruins," "Home Thoughts from Abroad,"...

Selected Poems (1923) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Dedicated to Edward Thomas, a friend of Frost's and an important English poet who died toward the end of the First World War, Selected Poems is a wonderful sampling of poems from Frost's early collections, including A Boy's Will and North of Boston. Known for his plainspoken language and dedication to the images and rhythms of rural New England, Robert Frost is one of America's...

"Robert Browning's popular poems The Pied Piper of Hamelin and How They Brought the Good News are often anthologised, but it is in his dramatic lyrics such as My Last Duchess and the chilling Porphyria's Lover that his poetic genius shines. Browning, with his unusual use of language, can be a challenging poet, but one who is always rewarding. This selection shows the many imaginative facets of this often neglected Victorian poet." --Publisher's description....