Browning's characters; a study in poetic techniques.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1961.Description: 327 p. 25 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.8
LOC classification:
  • PR4238 .H6
Contents:
Part I: Experiments and self-portraits -- The twofold search: form and technique -- Incondita, Pauline, and Shelley -- Paracelsus -- Early lyrics -- Sordello -- Part II: Character for the stage -- The theater -- Strafford -- King Victor and King Charles -- The return of the druses -- A blot in the 'scutcheon -- Colombe's birthday -- Part III: Characters for the study -- Pippa passes -- A soul's tragedy -- Luria -- Part IV: The solitary voice -- The problem of the dramatic monologue -- A definition of the poetic form -- Character in twenty poems -- Part V: The speaker's situation -- The historical crisis -- Personal circumstances and the moment -- Audience -- The epistolary situation -- Part VI: Imagery -- Imagery and character -- The imagery of animals -- Color, light, food, profession, and environment -- False imagery -- Part VII: Diction -- Language in the Browning monologue -- Repetition and key words -- Diction and dramatic situation: six classes -- Characteristic word groups and complex vocabularies -- Part VIII: Sound and the sentence -- Rhythm -- Alliteration and rhyme -- Phonetic quality -- Syntax -- Punctuation -- Part IX: The arch-villain.
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Part I: Experiments and self-portraits -- The twofold search: form and technique -- Incondita, Pauline, and Shelley -- Paracelsus -- Early lyrics -- Sordello -- Part II: Character for the stage -- The theater -- Strafford -- King Victor and King Charles -- The return of the druses -- A blot in the 'scutcheon -- Colombe's birthday -- Part III: Characters for the study -- Pippa passes -- A soul's tragedy -- Luria -- Part IV: The solitary voice -- The problem of the dramatic monologue -- A definition of the poetic form -- Character in twenty poems -- Part V: The speaker's situation -- The historical crisis -- Personal circumstances and the moment -- Audience -- The epistolary situation -- Part VI: Imagery -- Imagery and character -- The imagery of animals -- Color, light, food, profession, and environment -- False imagery -- Part VII: Diction -- Language in the Browning monologue -- Repetition and key words -- Diction and dramatic situation: six classes -- Characteristic word groups and complex vocabularies -- Part VIII: Sound and the sentence -- Rhythm -- Alliteration and rhyme -- Phonetic quality -- Syntax -- Punctuation -- Part IX: The arch-villain.