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Browning's "Childe Roland": the visionary poetic.(Robert Browning)
From: Victorian Newsletter
Date: 20050922
Author:Starzyk, Lawrence J.
Did the personality of such an one stand like an open watchtower in the midst of the territory it is erected to gaze on, and were the storms and calms, the stars and meteors, its watchman was wont to report of, the habitual variegation of his everyday life, as they glanced across its open door or lay reflected on its four-square parapet?
"An Essay on Shelley" (1)
Browning's description of the objective poet anticipates some of the concerns of the poet's celebrated quest poem written within a month of the publication in December 1852 of his "An Essay on Shelley." The ...
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