Robert Browning's Literary Relations — Sources, Influences, Confluences, and Reputation

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• Browning's Influence
• Browning's comments on Rossetti, Swinburne, and Buchanan
• Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Difficulties of Victorian Poetry: Browning, Tennyson, Swinburne
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Charles Dickens, The Christmas Books, Popular Taste, and Robert Browning's Verse Tragedy A Blot on the 'Scutcheon (1842-43
• The Last Moments of a Convict and a Bishop (Dickens and Browning)
• The Pursuit of Wealth in "The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" and Great Expectations
• "Childe Roland" and MacDonald's Phantastes
• Browning, Carlyle, and the Unconscious
• P. B. Shelley
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Compared to Browning
  • "Porphyria's Lover" and Tennyson's "Ulysses" — unreliable speakers in the dramatic monologue
  • The dramatic works of Tennyson and Browning
  • "Childe Roland" and "The Lady of Shalott"
  • "Childe Roland" and "Mariana"
  • Rage in "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" and "Locksley Hall"
• Anthony Trollope
• Realistic Dialogue in The Warden and "Fra Lippo Lippi"
• Art's Power to Reveal vs. Journalism's Power to Force
• The Pre-Raphaelites
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
  • Pre-Raphaelitism in Poetry
  • Blues and Punishment: “Fra Lippo Lippi,” “Andrea del Sarto,” Christina Rossetti's “The Heart Knoweth its own Bitterness,” and “Reflection”
• William Worthsworth

Browning and Twentieth-Century Authors

• All the pretty sea-horses: Echoes and Traces of Robert Browning's “My Last Duchess” in A Streetcar Named Desire

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Last modified 6 December 2010