LEADER 04594nam 2200673 450 001 9910456553603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612037030 010 $a1-4426-7941-7 010 $a1-282-03703-X 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442679412 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001335 035 $a(OCoLC)244768143 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10226375 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000308550 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11207035 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000308550 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10258979 035 $a(PQKB)10030099 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600590 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3257975 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671915 035 $a(DE-B1597)464831 035 $a(OCoLC)944177652 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442679412 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671915 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257603 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001335 100 $a20160922h19991999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRobert Browning's language /$fDonald S. Hair 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1999. 210 4$dİ1999 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4875-9126-8 311 $a0-8020-4434-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Texts -- $tIntroduction: ?Sense, sight and song? -- $tChapter One. ?The world of words?: Johnson, Locke, and Congregationalism -- $tChapter Two. Parleying, Troping, and Fragmenting: Pauline, Paracelsus, and Sordello -- $tChapter Three. ?Why need I speak, if you can read my thought??: The Unacted Drama, ?My Last Duchess,? and??Childe Roland?? -- $tChapter Four. ?I kept time to the wondrous chime?: Rhyme?s Reason, ?Love among the Ruins,? The Inn Album, and ?Of Pacchiarotto? -- $tChapter Five. ?Adjust Real vision to right language?: The Idealist Goal of Language, ?Parleying with Christopher Smart,? ?Abt Vogler? and ?Saul? -- $tChapter Six. ?For how else know we save by worth of word??: The Ring and the Book -- $tChapter Seven. ?One thing has many sides?: Browning?s ?transcripts,? Balaustion?s Adventure and Aristophanes? Apology -- $tChapter Eight. ?Do you say this, or I??: Browning?s ?parleyings,? La Saisiaz, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, and Fifine at the Fair -- $tOverview and Conclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat 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 a full range of texts from the 1833 Pauline to the 1889 Asolando, but also the ideas important to Browning, the historical context in which he lived, and the other artistic passions that played a part in his life. In 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 a God-given essential. The Victorian age's anti-theatrical 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 poetry. Hair conceives of Browning's language as a theoretical whole, encompassing words, genres, rhyme, syntax, and phonetics. He 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. 606 $aEnglish language$y19th century$xSyntax 606 $aEnglish language$y19th century$xStyle 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish language$xSyntax. 615 0$aEnglish language$xStyle. 676 $a821/.8 700 $aHair$b Donald S.$0881101 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456553603321 996 $aRobert Browning's language$92451033 997 $aUNINA