"The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" by Robert Browning: An Overview

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• Text of the poem
• A Strangely Literal Afterlife in "The Bishop Orders his Tomb"
• The Bishop's Deathbed Vision: Pan, Praxed and Preaching
• Robert Browning's "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church: Rome, 15--" (1845): The Sensual, The Profane, and the Sacerdotal [The Historical Context]
• The Use of Irony in "The Bishop Orders his Tomb"
• The Question of Salvation
• Eliding Information in "The Bishop Orders his Tomb"
• Robert Browning's Use of Biblical Typology in "The Bishop Orders His Tomb"

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Modified 20 February 2004