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For questions about English poet Robert Browning (1812–1889), known for dramatic monologues including ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’; and for long narrative poems including ‘Sordello’ and ‘The Ring and the Book’.
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Evidence for the identity of Browning’s “lyric Love”?
Book I of Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book (1868) ends with an apostrophe of 26 lines, addressed to “lyric Love”. The passage was admired by many, including Arthur Quiller-Couch, who anthologiz …
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Why does Caponsacchi count his fingers in "The Ring and the Book"?
In book VI of Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book, Giuseppe Caponsacchi tries seducing two women of Arezzo with love-poetry, but he is disappointed with the results:
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Which of Sacchetti’s stories are parodied in "The Ring and the Book"?
In book V of Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book (1868), Count Guido Franceschini compares his plight to that of a character in a story by Franco Sacchetti:
Aha, Sacchetti again!—“Dame,”—quoth …
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Why does Browning need to be ‘manned by Manning’?
In Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book (1868), the narrator buys an ‘old yellow book’ at a street market in Florence, containing documents from a seventeenth-century murder trial at Rome. He consi …
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What is a ‘tongue-leaved eye-figured Eden tree’?
In book III of Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book, Violante adopts an unwanted new-born child and passes her off to her husband Pietro as their daughter Pompilia:
Well, having gained Pompilia, t …
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What does Browning's cloistered soliloquist mean by ‘Hy, Zy, Hine’?
Here’s the last stanza of Robert Browning’s ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister’, first published in Dramatic Lyrics (1842):
Or, there’s Satan!—one might venture
Pledge one’s soul to him, yet …
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What does “Hoti’s business” refer to, in Browning’s ‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’?
Robert Browning’s ‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’, first published in Men and Women (1855), describes some of the grammarian’s achievements:
He settled Hoti’s business—let it be!—
Properly based Oun—
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“It’s fast holding by the rings in front” in Browning’s ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’
In ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’ (1855) by Robert Browning, the speaker, the painter Filippo Lippi, says:
I’m grown a man no doubt, I’ve broken bounds:
You should not take a fellow eight years old
And make him s …
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In "Sordello", how do we know the rejected spirit is Shelley?
In book I of Sordello (1840) by Robert Browning, the speaker addresses a group of spirits,
Summoned together from the world’s four ends,
Dropped down from heaven or cast up from hell,
To hear the sto …
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