布朗宁和狄更斯.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Robert Browning (1812-1889) biography Birth: suburb of London, his father was a bank clerk; his mother was a Scottish lady. Education: voracious reader, scant formal education, self educated in the family library. Travel to Russia marriage: classical romance with Elizabeth Barrett, a renowned poet 6 years of his senior. Associates: Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens Death: buried in Westminster Abbey. Literary career 1830s, unsuccessful practices in verse drama; dramtic monologue Reputation revived in1850s and 1860s Men and Women (1855) The Ring and the Book (1869) Dramatic Personae (1864) Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806-1861) Distinguished poet outspoken on issues of social injustice like slavery, child labor, and oppression of women. lasting influence on future women writers such as Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson. Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1850 The Cry of the Children, 1843 Aurora Leigh (1857) Sonnet 43 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everydays Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhoods faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Position and achievements noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue, his rejection of overly-florid language, and his mastery of psychological characterization. Subject matter: a key moment in the life of a prince, priest or painter of the Italian Renaissance Style: modern and experimental to Victorian readers, with abrupt openings, colloquial phrasing, irregular rhythms, condensed expr