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Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) Paperback – April 1, 2001

by Robert Browning (Author), Daniel Karlin (Editor)

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Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, and introduces everyday events of the streets and marketplace into the rarified world of Victorian poetry.

This edition includes examples from the early Dramatic Lyrics (1842) and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845); from the masterpieces Mena and Women (1855) and Dramatis Personae (1864), and from the less familiar works of his later years. Together they convey the intensity, the lyric beauty, and the vitality of Browning's poetry.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Robert Browning (1812-1889) attended the newly founded University of London for a year before travelling widely on the Continent in the 1830s and 1840s. After a clandestine courtship, he married Elizabeth Barrett in 1846 and they lived in Italy until her death in 1861. He is one of the most significant and inventive of Victorian poets.

Daniel Karlin is a professor of English at University College, London. He has edited The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (April 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140437266
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140437263
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1250L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.82 x 5.1 x 0.73 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #709,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #756 in British & Irish Poetry
- #783 in British & Irish Literary Criticism (Books)
- #842 in British & Irish Literature

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sarah scow
Has all the classics
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2014
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Browning's most famous poems are in here and the ones that he is known for in the literary world. Introduces Dramatic Monologue to poetry scene in Victorian age.

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K. A. Anderson
Classic Poetry
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2014
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Browning is a genius. He is always relevant. The book was delivered on time and was crucial for my project. I am enjoying it.

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Junietta B. McCall
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Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2016
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This classic had the specific quote I was looking for.

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Razvan Viteazu
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Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2015
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Great!

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Joseph M.
Burying the Bishop and Disinterring the Shorter Poems
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2012
Born (as was Charles Dickens) in 1812; died (as did Gerard Manley Hopkins) in 1889, Robert Browning (part Romantic, part Victorian, and certainly part Modern) remains one of the most influential yet controversial literary giants of the 19th Century. Controversial? Henry James called him "a poet without a lyre." Oscar Wilde acknowledged that Browning had a lyre but that its strings were broken, famously remarking, "He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose." Yet both men admired him as a consummate creator of character, even rivaling Shakespeare. These evaluations notwithstanding, those of us who vaguely remember Browning from high school as the quintessential composer of blank-verse dramatic monologues, will perhaps be surprised and delighted at the range of rhythmic -- and rhyming -- patterns the poems in this collection show. Indeed, in a market fairly saturated with wonderful Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning offerings, it was savvy of acclaimed British actor Greg Wagland to concentrate here on shorter, lyrical poems that I, as a casual Browning fan, was unfamiliar with.

But how, with the aforementioned embarrassment of riches, does one choose one Robert Browning audiobook? If, as publisher-critic Michael Schmidt has written, "we read [poetry] with our ears," I would rephrase this by saying that if we're lucky, we also hear it with our eyes. But I'm not lucky; unlike prose, I MUST HEAR poetry spoken (performed?) out loud, and the nature of (especially) this particular poet's oeuvre is such that he demands to be heard in dramatically polished recordings such as this one by Wagland -- the new kid on the Browning block. (At Audible you can also compare veteran voice actors David Timson and Patience Tomlinson's superb collaboration The Great Poets: Robert Browning, with James Mason's iconic portrayals of disturbed priests and uxoricidal husbands The Poetry of Browning; you can purchase 3 to 15-minute readings by Cathy Dobson, or at the other extreme Frederick Davidson's 5-hour (!) monotone marathon (Robert Browning: Selected Poems). Obviously narrators differ in vocal tone and timbre, as well as interpretive approach. For these reasons alone you and I may prefer different readers. On a theoretical continuum from straight-up reading to the over-wrought ACTING so preciously satirized by Jon Lovitz's "Saturday Night Live" sketches, Greg Wagland lands in the golden middle: not quite understated; pensive but not subdued. That said, unlike say Davidson (who always sounds like Davidson), Wagland's tone varies as it should depending upon the poem, and his interpretations are always moving and dead on.

The poems on this audiobook, listed in ORDER, are: 1. The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 2. The Lost Leader 3. Love Among the Ruins. 4. Up at a Villa, Down in the City 5. A Woman's Last Word 6. A Toccata of Galu
ppi's 7. Love in a Life. 8. Life in a Love. 10. Two in the Campagna 11. Dubiety 12. Apparent Failure 13. Prospice 14. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 15. A Grammarian's Funeral 16. Pictor Ignatius 17. My Star.

All poems but the first one rhyme. So much for high-school memories and Oscar Wilde.

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one of the greats
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2001
Browning is one of the great poets. this selection contains poems such as 'the last dutchess', 'porphyria's lover' and 'childe roland to the dark tower came' which shows browning at his best. this selected poems only whetted my appetite for a complete version.

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Priya
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Reviewed in India on November 4, 2024
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The book came in such a damaged condition. All chipped and twisted .looking like a second hand book.after spending 500 rs this is what u get. Plus u wont get main poetries of the poet, just the lesser known work of him. Last ride is missing too.v disapoointing

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2015
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Good for my uni studies

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2017
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Back page of book is torn. Very unhappy.

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