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.

 

 

 

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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.

Die Textwiedergabe erfolgt nach dem ersten Druck (Editionsrichtlinien).

URL: https://archive.org/details/lifeandworkjohn01collgoog
PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015002756446

 

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Literatur: Browning

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.

Taylor, Mark: The Forgetting of Idealism: T. S. Eliot, Robert Browning, and the Origins of Literary Criticism. In: English Literary History 90.2 (2023), S. 491-518.

 

 

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