The book Robert Browning And the English Pre Raphaelites was written by author Ralph Granger Watkins Here you can read free online of Robert Browning And the English Pre Raphaelites book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Robert Browning And the English Pre Raphaelites a good or bad book?
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What surprises more in the strenuous Browning than any such reconstruction, is the presence in certain of his lyrics in Paracelsus and in Pippa Passes, of a more remote, ethereal, unconditioned romanticism — a conjuring- up of sensuous nowheres, existent only in the yearnings of persons tired, depressed, or at odds with uncongenial surroundings — that is also precursive of Morris. For instance, where Paracelsus commits his old plans, as being mere beautiful dreams, to the flames. Browning sings...: such balsam falls Down sea-side mountain pedestals, From tree-tops where tired winds are fain, Spent with the vast and howling main, To treasure half their island-gain. Morris has a place where fair streams are drawn from the purple hills afar, Drawn down unto the restless sea; The hills whose flower ne'er fed a bee, The shore no ship has ever seen, Still beaten by the billows green — the place for which, both day and night, the singer cries, in the lyric inserted in Jason. The delightful sea-wandering in Paracelsus, placed at no definite period of time, to unknown islands of the sea, is a perfect example of the sensuous method of Keats, applied to a subject such as Morris afterwards chose.
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