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Robert Browning.(Guide to the year's work)
From: Victorian Poetry
Date: 20040922
Author:Gibson, Mary Ellis
As I have made my way through hundreds, many hundreds, of pages recently published on Robert Browning and, as often as not, on Elizabeth Barrett as well, I have been forced to wonder what it is about these two poets and their poetry that still attracts readers, scholars, publishers. I have tried to reconcile my noble pile of reading with the sobering statistics presented by Clint Machann in last year's review of Arnold studies in this journal, for Machann has documented a significant decline in scholarly writing on Victorian poetry (VP 41 [2003]: 376).
Last year Machann ...
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