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the poetical works of robert browning volume xv parleyings and asolando
volume 15 in the complete poetical works of robert browning presents poetry browning wrote in his seventies his last two volumes parleyings 1887 and asolando 1889 . the former is the poets last sustained meditation on life and on his times a nine section credo covering religion history poetry politics art and music . asolando is a coda to his whole oeuvre a mixture of short love lyrics historical monologues and anecdotes light verse and poems which are quite sui generis all grouped around the theme of fancies and fact . both volumes are presented here with previously unknown sources a wealth of new contextual material and many textual nuances clarified giving a fresh view of the last phase of brownings career . what emerges is a poet more seriously christian protestant and liberal than previously supposed more interested in britains destiny and empire more enmeshed in the local battles of the 1880s and a writer of considerable range and wit .
paperback oxford university press usa 2009 isbn13 9780198123514 isbn10 0198123515
abridged n isbn 13 9780198123514 number in series 1 number of pages 440 publisher oxford university press release date 62135769600000 series title poetical works of robert browning volume capacity 15