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Robert Browning

Chapter 59: ANCIENT CLASSICS
By C. H. Herford
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This study traces the poet's life and literary development from early influences through major experiments, giving concentrated attention to formative pieces, dramatic works, and the long narrative sequence, and surveying later years and aftermath. It then offers sustained analysis of imaginative method and technique, weighing twin tendencies toward realism and a romantic impulsion, and identifying recurring aesthetic pleasures in light, colour, form, and force alongside moral and psychological concern for the soul. The author explores philosophical tensions about matter, time, knowledge, and the divine, and proposes that love operates as a key resolving principle while providing close readings of representative poems and dramas.

PERIODS OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE.

A COMPLETE AND CONTINUOUS HISTORY OF THE SUBJECT.

Edited by PROFESSOR SAINTSBURY.

In 12 crown 8vo vols., each 5s. net.

  • THE DARK AGES. By PROF. W.P. KER.
  • THE FLOURISHING OF ROMANCE AND THE RISE OF ALLEGORY. (12TH AND 13TH CENTURIES.) By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Hon. LL.D. Aberdeen, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in Edinburgh University.
  • THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. By P.J. SNELL.
  • THE TRANSITION PERIOD. By G. GREGORY SMITH.
  • THE EARLIER RENAISSANCE. By The EDITOR.
  • THE LATER RENAISSANCE. By DAVID HANNAY.
  • THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. By PROF. H.J.C. GRIERSON.
  • THE AUGUSTAN AGES. By PROFESSOR ELTON.
  • THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By J.H. MILLAR.
  • THE ROMANTIC REVOLT. By PROF. C.E. VAUGHAN. [In preparation.
  • THE ROMANTIC TRIUMPH. By T.S. OMOND.
  • THE LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY. By The EDITOR. [In preparation.

PHILOSOPHICAL CLASSICS

FOR ENGLISH READERS.

Edited by PROFESSOR KNIGHT, LL.D.

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Descartes. Prof. MAHAFFY.   Vico. Prof. FLINT.
Butler. Rev. W.L. COLLINS.   Hobbes. Prof. CROOM ROBERTSON.
Berkeley. Prof. CAMPBELL FRASER.   Hume. Prof. KNIGHT.
Fichte. Prof. ADAMSON.   Spinoza. Principal CAIRD.
Kant. Prof. WALLACE.   Bacon: PART I. Prof. NICHOL.
Hamilton. Prof. VEITCH.   Bacon: PART II. Prof. NICHOL.
Hegel. The MASTER OF BALLIOL.   Locke. Prof. CAMPBELL FRASER.
Leibniz. JOHN THEODORE MERZ.    

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FOREIGN CLASSICS

FOR ENGLISH READERS.

Edited by MRS OLIPHANT.

Limp cloth, price 1s. each.

Dante. The EDITOR.   Corneille and Racine. HENRY M. TROLLOPE.
Voltaire. General Sir E.B. HAMLEY, K.C.B.   Madame de Sévigné. Miss THACKERAY.
Pascal. Principal TULLOCH.   La Fontaine and other French Fabulists. Rev. W. LUCAS COLLINS, M.A.
Petrarch. HENRY REEVE, C.B.   Schiller. JAMES SIME, M.A.
Goethe. A. HAYWARD, Q.C.   Tasso. E.J. HASELL.
Molière. The EDITOR and F. TARVER, M.A.   Rousseau. HENRY GREY GRAHAM.
Montaigne. Rev. W.L. COLLINS.   Alfred de Mussel. C.F. OLIPHANT.
Rabelais. Sir WALTER BESANT.    
Calderon. E.J. HASELL.    
Saint Simon. C.W. COLLINS.    
Cervantes. The EDITOR.    

ANCIENT CLASSICS

FOR ENGLISH READERS.

Edited by the REV. W. LUCAS COLLINS, M.A.

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Homer: Iliad. The EDITOR.   Plautus and Terence. The EDITOR.
Homer: Odyssey. The EDITOR.   Tacitus. W.B. DONNE.
Herodotus. G.C. SWAYNE.   Lucian. The EDITOR.
Cæsar. ANTHONY TROLLOPE.   Plato. C.W. COLLINS.
Virgil. The EDITOR.   Greek Anthology. Lord NEAVES.
Horace. Sir THEODORE MARTIN.   Livy. The EDITOR.
Aeschylus. Bishop COPLESTONE.   Ovid. Rev. A. CHURCH.
Xenophon. Sir ALEX. GRANT.   Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius. J. DAVIES.
Cicero. The EDITOR.   Demosthenes. W.J. BRODRIBB.
Sophocles. C.W. COLLINS.   Aristotle. Sir ALEX. GRANT.
Pliny. Rev. A. CHURCH and W.J. BRODRIBB.   Thucydides. The EDITOR.
Euripides. W.B. DONNE.   Lucretius. W.H. MALLOCK.
Juvenal. E. WALFORD.   Pindar. Rev. F.D. MORICE.
Aristophanes. The EDITOR.    
Hesiod and Theognis. J. DAVIES.    

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