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The Poems of Robert Browning (New ed)

Browning, RobertCook, Tim(Introduction by)
Part of the Wordsworth Poetry Library series
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With an Introduction by Dr Tim Cook. Robert Browning (1812-1889) represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and Tennyson.

His poetry demonstrates how a poet must be a sharp perceptive observer of the complexity of the human condition. Perhaps his most moving poetry was written to express his feelings for his wife, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which he deals in a very 'modern' way with the uncomfortable fact that we can never quite bridge the gap between ourselves and the people we love.

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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
1853264180 / 9781853264184
Paperback / softback
821.8
05/09/1994
United Kingdom
English
1056 pages
129 x 198 mm, 644 grams
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