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Autorentext
J R WATSON, is Professor of English in the University of Durham, UK.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements.- General Editor's Preface.- Introduction.- Browning's Poems as Originally Published.- PART 1: TWO SOURCES Giorgio Vasari: from 'The Florentine Painter, Fra Filippo Lippi'.- Giorgio Vasari: from 'The Most Excellent Florentine Painter, Andrea del Sarto'.- PART 2: SOME VICTORIAN ASSESSMENTS John Stuart Mill.- George Eliot.- John Ruskin.- Swinburne.- Gerard Manley Hopkins.- Henry James.- PART 3: TWENTIETH-CENTURY VIEWS: 1. GENERAL ESSAYS G. K. Chesterton: Browning as Literary Artist.- E. D. H. Johnson: Authority and the Rebellious Heart.- Robert Langbaum: The Dramatic Monologue: Sympathy versus Judgment.- J. Hillis Miller: from The Disappearance of God.- Particia M. Ball: Browning's Godot.- PART 4: TWENTIETH-CENTURY VIEWS: 2. ESSAYS ON INDIVIDUAL POEMS Roma A. Kind JR: Ecclesiastical Vision in Stone: 'The Bishop Orders His Tomb'.- W. O. Raymond: 'The Statue and the Bust'.- Richard D. Altick: 'Andrea del Sarto': The Kingdom of Hell is Within.- PART 5: TWO PARODIES C. S. Calverley: The Cock and the Bull.- J. K. Stephen: The Last Ride Together (From Her Point of View).- Suggestions for Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- General Index.- Index to Browning's Poems.