Robert Browning

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Brief an John Ruskin
10. Dezember 1855

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"Do you think poetry was ever generally understood — or can be? Is the business of it to tell people what they know already, as they know it, and so precisely that they shall be able to cry out — 'Here you should supply this — that, you evidently pass over, and I'll help you from my own stock'? It is all teaching, on the contrary, and the people hate to be taught. They say otherwise, — make foolish fables about Orpheus enchanting stocks and stones, poets standing up and being worshipped, — all nonsense and impossible dreaming. A poet's affair is with God, to whom he is accountable, and of whom is his reward: look elsewhere, and you find misery enough.

Druckvorlage

W. G. Collingwood: The Life and Work of John Ruskin.
With Portraits and Other Illustrations in Two Volumes.
Vol. 1. London: Methuen & Co. 1893, S. 199-202.

Unser Auszug: S. 201.

URL: https://archive.org/details/lifeandworkjohn01collgoog
URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001911262

Die Textwiedergabe erfolgt nach dem ersten Druck (Editionsrichtlinien).

Kommentierte Ausgaben

• Robert Browning: The Major Works.
  Edited with Notes by Adam Roberts.
  Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009 (= Oxford World's Classics).
  Text: S. 691-693; Kommentar: 817.
  
  
• Robert Browning: Selected Poems.
  Hrsg. von John Woolford u.a.
  London u. New Yrok: Routledge 2013.
  Text u. Kommentar: S. 881-882.
  
  
• Robert Browning.
  Hrsg. von Richard Cronin and Dorothy McMillan.
  Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015 (= 21st Century Oxford Authors).

Literatur

Armstrong, Isobel: Victorian Poetry. Poetry, poetics and politics. London u.a. 2003.

Brandmeyer, Rudolf: Poetiken der Lyrik: Von der Normpoetik zur Autorenpoetik. In: Handbuch Lyrik. Theorie, Analyse, Geschichte. Hrsg. von Dieter Lamping. 2. Aufl. Stuttgart 2016, S. 2-15. Barcus, James E. (Hrsg.): Shelley. The Critical Heritage. London u.a. 1975.

Bristow, Joseph (Hrsg.): The Victorian Poet. Poetics and Persona. London u.a. 1987.

Cheeke, Stephen: Transfiguration. The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature before Aestheticism. Oxford 2016.

Christ, Carol T.: Victorian Poetics. In: A Companion to Victorian Poetry. Hrsg. von Richard Cronin u.a. Malden, MA 2002, S. 1-21.

Hanley, Keith u.a. (Hrsg.): Persistent Ruskin. Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect. Farnham, Surrey u.a. 2013.

Litzinger, Boyd u.a. (Hrsg.): Robert Browning. The Critical Heritage. London u.a. 1995.

Martens, Britta: Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy. Challenging the Personal Voice. Farnham 2011.

Matthews-Schlinzig, Marie I. u.a. (Hrsg.): Handbuch Brief. Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. 2 Bde. Berlin u. Boston 2020.

Wood, Sarah: Robert Browning. A Literary Life. London 2001.

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