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Article: Robert Browning. (Gudie to the Year's Work).(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Melancholia, mourning, narcissism, religious belief, the poet's power. This year's essays on Robert Browning's poetry have returned to the territory that so fascinated the late Victorians. What lies beyond death? How do art, eros, and theology shape our notions of the infinite and the finite, of the life in time and something else beyond or within it?
Although this has been the thinnest year in many for Robert Browning studies, yielding a clutch of articles, many of them limited in scope, the essayists of Browning's work have returned as if by coincidence to central questions of art and the spiritual and physical life. As A. S. Byatt put it in a lecture for the ...