A Question of Breathing
John Bayley, 4 August 1988
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
by Margaret Forster.
Chatto, 400 pp., £14.95, June 1988,0 7011 3018 0 Show More
by Margaret Forster.
Chatto, 400 pp., £14.95, June 1988,
Selected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
by Margaret Forster.
Chatto, 330 pp., £12.95, June 1988,0 7011 3311 2 Show More
by Margaret Forster.
Chatto, 330 pp., £12.95, June 1988,
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Vol. III
edited by Ian Jack and Rowena Fowler.
Oxford, 542 pp., £60, June 1988,0 19 812762 6 Show More
edited by Ian Jack and Rowena Fowler.
Oxford, 542 pp., £60, June 1988,
The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Vol. VIII
edited by Roma King and Susan Crowl.
Ohio/Baylor University, 379 pp., £47.50, September 1988,9780821403808 Show More
edited by Roma King and Susan Crowl.
Ohio/Baylor University, 379 pp., £47.50, September 1988,
“... The Romantic era produced in abundance both self-dramatisers and self-esteemers. Despite their obvious relation, they are, and remain, two distinct species. In our own literature Byron is the prototype of the first, Wordsworth of the second. The great Goethe was, in his time, king and emperor of both, and highly revered for it. In love with their fates, condemned by these to some suitable agony, the dramatisers had a more spectacular but more painful time of it than those whom Keats rather unfairly refers to as ‘large self-worshippers ... ”
