Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy

Taking an original approach to Robert Browning''s poetics, Britta Martens focuses on a corpus of relatively neglected poems in Browning''s own voice in which he reflects on his poetry, his self-conceptualization and his place in the poetic tradition. She analyzes his work in relation to Romanticism, Victorian reactions to the Romantic legacy, and wider nineteenth-century changes in poetic taste, t...