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Browning's The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church.(Robert Browning)(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20030622
Author:Cervo, Nathan A.

As "The Tomb at Saint Praxed's," this poem first appeared in 1845. The poem was retitled in 1849, and in 1863 it was included in "Men and Women" immediately before "Bishop Blougram's Apology." (Pettigrew 1093). When each poem is considered superficially, it would appear that Browning had no further intent than to satirize two bishops; one, a sensualist besotted by renaissance inclusivity; the other, a self-deluded wielder of casuistry, who nonetheless is intelligent enough to understand the deleterious consequences to the Church of "Fichte's clever cut at God himself!" ("Bishop ...

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