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Browning's Experiments with Genre

Browning's Experiments with Genre

S. Hair, Donald

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1487591241
ISBN13: 9781487591243
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1972
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

One of the chief characteristics of nineteenth-century poetics was a tendency to test the conventions and techniques of literary genres by shifting, modifying, and combining various styles and forms. Browning fully exploited these changes, because his interests and purposes as a poet seemed to demand more of the lyric, the dramatic, and the narrative than these kinds had traditionally been able to perform. His fascination was with the development of the individual soul and he was determined to evoke in his readers his own insights into the complexity of human concerns; thus he became a constant experimenter with genre. Browning never felt that any experiment, however unsatisfactory the result, was wasted effort; each direction tried made him better prepared to attempt another.

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