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Article: Donald S. Hair Robert Browning's language.
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- Textual Studies in Canada
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- June 22, 2001
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Donald S. Hair Robert Browning's Language
Toronto: U Toronto P, 1999. 326 pages.
In Robert Browning's Language, Donald S. Hair examines various aspects of Browning's thought concerning language and offers detailed analyses of a number of poems in order to show how Browning's conceptions inform his art.
Browning's love of Johnson's Dictionary is legendary; Hair demonstrates, however, that the Dictionary was more than a word book to Browning. It shaped his understanding of language itself, at once anchoring him in the tradition of Lockian empiricism and separating him from the new (German) philology of the Coleridgians.
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