TY - BOOK AU - Kennedy,Richard S. AU - Hair,Donald S. TI - Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning: A Literary Life SN - 9780826265524 AV - PR4231.K36 2007 U1 - 821/.809B PY - 2007/// CY - Columbia PB - University of Missouri Press KW - Poets, English--19th century--Biography KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Signposts Unregarded -- Chapter 2 The Brownings of Southampton Street -- Chapter 3 The Education of a Would-Be Poet -- Chapter 4 Filling the Reservoir -- Chapter 5 Browning Aspires to Be Shelley -- Chapter 6 Browning Aspires to Be Shakespeare -- Chapter 7 A Literary Disaster -- Chapter 8 Browning as Dramatist for Closet and Stage -- Chapter 9 Varieties of Poetic Monodrama Dramatic Lyrics -- Chapter 10 Another Duchess and a Dying Bishop -- Chapter 11 A Worthy Fellow Poet -- Chapter 12 Miss Barrett's Mysterious Illness -- Chapter 13 Monodramatic Developments Dramatic Romances and Lyrics -- Chapter 14 Some Surprises about the Barrett Household -- Chapter 15 Robert Awakes without a Headache -- Chapter 16 Flight to Italy -- Chapter 17 Joys and Sorrows -- Chapter 18 Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day -- Chapter 19 London and Paris -- Chapter 20 The International Life -- Chapter 21 Dreamwork -- Chapter 22 Withdrawal into the Creative Life -- Chapter 23 Spirits from the Vasty Deep -- Chapter 24 Troubles in London -- Chapter 25 Men and Women -- Chapter 26 "It is high time that this sort of thing be stopped" -- Chapter 27 That Little-Seeming Substance -- Chapter 28 The Good of Poetry -- Chapter 29 Fathers, Sons, Books -- Chapter 30 Complex Poetry -- Chapter 31 Fame and Its Discontents -- Chapter 32 At Play in the Land of Souls -- Chapter 33 House and Shop -- Chapter 34 English Roses and Florentine Lilies -- Endnotes -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3570927 ER -