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Search - Browning's Paracelsus - Being The Text Of Browning's Poem With Introduction And Notes

Browning's Paracelsus Being The Text Of Browning's Poem With Introduction And Notes
Author: Margaret Lee

PREFACE TWO motives impelled me to the undertaking of this small task, which I and another have shared. The first was the desire to please my dear old friend Dr. G. U. Pope, late Reader in Tamil and Telugu at Oxford. He, who had known Browning intimately, edited in 1897 the poem of A Death in the Desert, and it was his plan and wish to deal with... more » others in the same way, since, as he often said, Browning needs and repays editing more than most of our poets. But in 1897 he was .already seventy-six years old, and though his wonderful vitality and keen interest in life and literature were never obscured or impaired during the eleven years that remained, he yet became increasingly conscious of the need to husband his resources, and concen- trate on his special work as interpreter of Tamil thought to the West. It was for this reason that he urged upon me a task which lay specially near his own heart the giving forth to fellow-students of some notes upon Brownings great early poem and his last words to me were Do the Paracelsus And remember, Kunst ist lange, Leben kurz. When, a little later, the news of his passing reached me, I felt that my own incapacity must not be allowed to weigh against the injunction given and I have been very conscious of help received from him during its fulfilment. The second motive has been my own wish to strike, if but once, the note of Unity to which all the instruments of the world are being tuned and the vibrations of that note have a power independent alike of instruments and their players. It is our hope that they may be carried by this book to one or two whose ears they have not yet reached. I need hardly add that the work thus laid upon me has proved its own reward. Indeed, so great has been the delight of doing it that I look forward to issuing notes of the same kind upon some of Brownings other poems, taken singly or in groups, should the present volume justify its claim to existence. In accomplishing my share of the divided labour, I have been greatly indebted to the various students who have attended my Browning lectures at Kings College and elsewhere, and whose thought and enthusiasm have helped me in ways of which they were probably unconscious. Loving thanks are also due to G. M. T. for hours spent in research on my behalf. Lastly, it would be vain to try to express how much of inspiration as well as of direct suggestion I owe to my friends H. D. O., C. F. E. S., and E. M. G. friends the very thought of whom brightens all the ways of life. 77, BANBURY ROAD OXFORD October, IQOQ MARGARET L. LEE PREFACE . INTRODUCTION CONTENTS PAGE . v I. BROWNINGS CHOICE OF SUBJECT M. L. Lee i II. THE FORM OF THE POEM M. L. Lee . III. LIFE AND CHARACTER OF PARACELSUS 6 M. Z. Lee 9 IV. OTHER FIGURES IN THE POEM M. L. Lee 23 V. BROWNINGS PHILOSOPHY M. L. Lee . 38 VI. IMAGERY IN THE POEM K. B. Locock . 56 VII. BROWNINGS METRES K. B. Locock . 64 BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . 77 TEXT, WITH FOOTNOTES M. L. Lee . 79 GLOSSARY OF PROPER KkMEK.B.Locock 237 BROWNING AND PARACELSUS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I BROWNINGS CHOICE OF SUBJECT WHAT was the state of Brownings outward and inward life at the time he wrote Paracelsus Not much is really known of either. He was twenty-three years of age, and after a desultory education, gained partly at private schools and partly by an irregular attendance at lectures of the London University, was living in his fathers house at Camberwell, an undistinguished member of the great army of the unemployed...

ISBN-13: 9781406779257
ISBN-10: 1406779253
Publication Date: 10/9/2007
Pages: 252
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Publisher: Braithwaite Press
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