The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume 1 (Pauline, Paracelsus) - Hardcover

Browning, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821400495 ISBN 13: 9780821400494

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 1969

Synopsis

In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning's known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning's life and career and aspects of Victorian thought and culture.
Volume I contains two dramatic poems, Pauline; A Fragment of a Confession and Paracelsus, along with a sonnet, "Eyes Calm Beside Thee." Pauline was written in 1832 and published in March 1833, London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street.
Browning's principal source material for Paracelsus was Frederick Bitiskius's edition of the works of Paracelsus, the early Renaissance alchemist, mystic, and physician; as well as the article on Paracelsus in the Biographie Universelle. E. D. H. Johnson wrote that in Paracelsus, "Browning first attacks the problem of communication, while still insisting on the primacy of the intuitions over the rational intellect. Paracelsus is a study of intellectual pride and its humbling."
As always in this acclaimed series, a complete record of textual variants is provided, as well as extensive explanatory notes.

About this title

About the Authors

Roma A. King, Jr. was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio University.

John Berkey is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821400495
• ISBN 13: 9780821400494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 306
• Editor: King Jr. Roma A., Berkey John, Peckham Morse