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by Robert Browning

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Equity and Natural Law in The Ring and the Book

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/clcshow/petch.htm

This analysis of Browning's poem argues that "Browning's poetic recreation of a murder trial in seventeenth-century Rome explores the problematic relation of human justice and natural law in all its moral and legal complexity."

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Simon Petch

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 35, no. 1, Spring 1996

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The Many-Walled World of "Andrea del Sarto" : The Dynamics of Self-Expatriation

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/winter97/polette.htm

This analysis examines the poem "Andrea del Sarto" and how "it is possible to enlarge and extend our understanding of the images of walls and the act of walling to achieve a keener and more expanded vision of both how and why Andrea del Sarto has sealed himself within a many-walled world. "

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Keith Polette

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 35, no. 4, Winter 1997

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The Pragmatics of Silence, and the Figuration of the Reader in Browning's Dramatic Monologues

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/fall97/wagner.htm

"My argument is that dramatic monologue thus constructs the image of the audience through the very silence it enforces upon the textual auditor. The genre self-reflexively figures its own problems of interpretation, and of the freedom of the reader in the effaced, voiceless shadow of the implied listener, who emerges from obscurity as the figure of the reader. "

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 35, no. 3, Fall 1997

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The Ring and the Book: The Mage, the Alchemist, and the Poet

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/spring98/roberts.htm

This analysis of Hardy's "The Ring and the Book" looks at the character of the mage and who he might represent.

Contains: Character Analysis

Author: Adam Roberts

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 36, no. 1, Spring 1998

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Robert Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister": Themes, Voices, and the Words, Hy, Zy, Hine

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/fall97/anderson.htm

This analysis concludes that the "poem is not a failed experiment with nonsense-words for a climax, but rather a carefully conceived dramatic situation with a terrifying end. "

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: James E. Anderson

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 35, no. 3, Fall 1997

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Sexual Tourism and Browning�s "The Englishman in Italy"

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/Fall98/fontana.htm

The author argues that "the relationship between the Englishman-speaker and Fort� is darker and more complex than readers have hitherto acknowledged."

Author: Ernest Fontana

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 36, no. 3, Fall 1998

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"Just the thing for the time": Contextualizing Religion in Browning�s "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed�s Church"

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/Fall98/hecim.htm

This essay raises the questions "In Victorian England who possesses the Pagan and Christian sensibilities embodied in Browning�s bishop? In Browning�s words,why is the poem 'just the thing for the time'? "

Contains: Historical Context

Author: Gregg Hecimovich

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 36, no. 3, Fall 1998

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