Robert Browning's Literary Relations — Sources, Influences, Confluences, and Reputation (original) (raw)

Browning and Pre-Nineteenth-Century Authors

• Browning and Ovid
• King Lear and “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
• Shakespeare’s Richard III, Iago, and the Duke in "My Last Duchess."
• Tennyson and Clough allude to Shakespeare more than do Browning and Hopkins
• John Donne
• John Milton
• Christopher Smart

Browning and Nineteenth-Century Authors

• William Wordsworth
• William Wordsworth & the dramatic monologue
• Browning's Influence
• Browning's comments on Rossetti, Swinburne, and Buchanan
• Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Difficulties of Victorian Poetry: Browning, Tennyson, Swinburne
• Browning's dramatic versus Elizabeth Barrett Browning's introspective poetry (according to RB)
• Charles Dickens
  • Charles Dickens, The Christmas Books, Popular Taste, and Robert Browning's Verse Tragedy A Blot on the 'Scutcheon (1842-43
  • The Last Moments of a Convict and a Bishop (Dickens and Browning)
  • The Pursuit of Wealth in "The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" and Great Expectations
• George MacDonald
  • "Childe Roland" and MacDonald's Phantastes
  • George MacDonald’s essay on Browning’s “Christmas Eve” (1853)
• Browning, Carlyle, and the Unconscious
• P. B. Shelley
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Compared to Browning
  • "Porphyria's Lover" and Tennyson's "Ulysses" — unreliable speakers in the dramatic monologue
  • The dramatic works of Tennyson and Browning
  • "Childe Roland" and "The Lady of Shalott"
  • "Childe Roland" and "Mariana"
  • Rage in "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" and "Locksley Hall"
• Anthony Trollope
  • Realistic Dialogue in The Warden and "Fra Lippo Lippi"
  • Art's Power to Reveal vs. Journalism's Power to Force
• The Pre-Raphaelites
  • Robert Browning as the Inspiration for Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
  • Pre-Raphaelitism in Poetry
  • Blues and Punishment: “Fra Lippo Lippi,” “Andrea del Sarto,” Christina Rossetti's “The Heart Knoweth its own Bitterness,” and “Reflection”

Browning and Twentieth-Century Authors

• All the pretty sea-horses: Echoes and Traces of Robert Browning's “My Last Duchess” in A Streetcar Named Desire
• Browning's Sordello and Ezra Pound

Last modified 16 December 2019