Symbolic Realism in Browning, The Pre-Raphaelites, Hopkins -- Outline for Lecture of 18 March 1998

George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University

Symbolic Realism, the Bible, Ruskin, Browning and the Pre-Raphaelites

• Definition
• Robert Browning's Use of Biblical Typology in "The Bishop Orders His Tomb"
• Pre-Raphaelites: An Introduction
• [A more detailed study: John Russkin, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhod, and Symbolic Realism]
• Aesthetic Pre-Raphaelitism
• Pre-Raphaelitism in Poetry

William Morris

• Religion in Willam Morris's Work
• The Early Poems of William Morris

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Symbolism and Imagery in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poetry
• David H. Riede on "The Woodspurge"
• David H. Riede on Rossetti's themes

Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Allusion to the Bible, Imagery, and Structure in Hopkins's Poetry
• Inscape
• "God's Grandeur" (text of poem)
• A Reading of Hopkins's "The Windhover"

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