Men and Women (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Browning
- First Published: 1855
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Short fiction, Poetry
- Subjects: Marriage, Poetry or poets, Painting or painters, Italy or Italians, Renaissance, Sculpting or sculptors, Sculpture, Poetics
Critical Evaluation:
The title Men and Women was originally appended to two volumes of poems containing fifty-one of Robert Browning’s most celebrated works. Beginning with the collected edition of 1863, the number of poems appearing under this title was reduced to thirteen, only eight of which had been in the 1855 edition of Men and Women. Of the other forty-three poems, thirty were thereafter grouped by Browning under Dramatic Lyrics (the most famous of these being “Love Among the Ruins,” “A Toccata of Galuppi’s,” “Saul,” “ ‘De...
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