Thematic Focus Of Robert Browning Poetic Work
The thematic focus of Robert Browning's poetic work (1812–1889) addresses universal questions about humanity's relationship with God, art, nature, and love. During an era when longstanding certainties were being challenged by advances in science (geology, Darwinism) and philosophy (scientism, positivism), Browning was often regarded as a philosopher or prophet at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. However, Browning himself saw himself as a poet, a view later validated by posterity, as he is now recognized alongside Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tennyson and Matthew Arnold as one of the three great English poets of the Victorian era. Recurring themes are revisited across Browning's collections, particularly in major works such as ''Dramatic Lyrics'', ''Dramatic Romances and Lyrics'', ''Men and Women (poetry collection), Men and Women'' (considered the masterpiece of his middle years by Margaret Drabble), ''Dramatis personae'', and ''The Ring and the Book''. To ex ...
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