Constance W. Hassett is assistant professor of English at Fordham University.
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The Elusive Self in the Poetry of Robert Browning
By Constance H. Hassett
The variety of Browning’s poetry has made it difficult to see his work as a canon rather than merely a collection. The Elusive Self takes issue with the opinion that Browning’s art is diffuse and argues instead for a unity born of his interest in man’s acts of introspection.The author observes in Browning’s idiosyncratic style and sense of time an adaptation of Romantic notions of spontaneity.
