Robert Browning's Language

What Are The Influences That Shaped The Language Used By One Of The Nineteenth Century's Greatest Writers? How Did His Religious Beliefs, The Books He Owned, The Paintings And Music He Loved, Affect Almost Sixty Years' Output Of Poems, Plays, Essays, And Letters? This Book Attempts To Define Browning's Understanding Of The Nature And Use Of Words And Syntax By Considering Not Only AFull Range Of Texts From The Pauline To The Asolando, But Also The Ideas Important To Browning, The Historical Context In Which He Lived, And The Other Artistic Passions That Played APart In His LifeIn This Companion Volume To Tennyson's Language, Donald Hair Establishes Browning's Place At The Crossroads Between Empirical And Idealist Traditions And Explains His 'double View' Of Language, Arguing That Both Locke And The Congregationalists Found Language To Be At The Same Time Empty And AGodgiven EssentialThe Victorian Age's Antitheatrical Bias, Which Browning Came To Share, And His Reading Of Predecessors, Principally Quarles, Bunyan, Donne, And Smart, Also Shaped His Understanding Of The Diction Of PoetryHair Conceives Of Browning's Language As ATheoretical Whole, Encompassing Words, Genres, Rhyme, Syntax, And PhoneticsHe Also Links Browning's Interest In Music With His Rhyming, The Most Essential And Characteristic Feature Of His Prosody, And Relates His Interest In Painting To The Interpretation Of The Visual Image In The Emblem And In Typology.
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