Browning and Modernism
Donald Davie, 10 October 1991
The Poems of Browning. Vol. I: 1826-1840
edited by John Woolford and Daniel Karlin.
Longman, 797 pp., £60, April 1991,0 582 48100 7 Show More
edited by John Woolford and Daniel Karlin.
Longman, 797 pp., £60, April 1991,
The Poems of Browning. Vol. II: 1841-1846
edited by John Woolford and Daniel Karlin .
Longman, 581 pp., £50, April 1991,9780582063990 Show More
edited by John Woolford and Daniel Karlin .
Longman, 581 pp., £50, April 1991,
“... pressed on him hardly at all. In his youth he had the courage of his unconcern: Nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the north-west died away; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay; In the dimmest north-east distance, dawned Gibraltar grand and gray; ‘Here and here did England help ... ”