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Balaustion's adventure. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau. Fifine at the fair
Author: Robert BrowningBalaustion's adventure. Prince Hohenstielschwangau. Fifine at the fair. Red cotton night-cap country
Author: Robert BrowningBalaustion's Adventure. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau. Fifine at the Fair. Red Cotton Night - Cap Country
Author: Robert BrowningThe Works of Robert Browning
Author: Robert BrowningThe Works
Author: Robert BrowningThe Works of Robert Browning: Balaustion's adventure. Prince Hobenstiel-Schwangau. Fifine at the fair. Red cotton night-cap country
Author: Robert BrowningThe Poetical Works
Author: Robert BrowningBalaustion's adventure. Prince Hohenstielschwangau. Fifine at the fair. Red cotton night-cap country
Author: Robert BrowningThe Canterbury Poets
Author: Quest for Eros
Author: Samuel B. SouthwellPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813195020
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Students of Browning have long been puzzled by the discrepancies between the dramatic framework of Fifine and its symbolic development, but these difficulties are resolved in Southwell's explication by a biographical hypothesis. The powerful influence of the memory of his beloved wife, Elizabeth, involved Browning in a deep ambivalence, and Fifine at the Fair represents his effort to escape the effects of the profound inhibitions associated with her memory, while at the same time remaining loyal to it. The poem is itself a flawed quest for Eros. Browning's symbolic vision of sexuality as the central vitalizing force in human culture—a supreme achievement of the poem—is followed by a renunciation of the quest, but the validity of the vision is explicitly affirmed and its promise recognized. In Fifine at the Fair Browning's artistic powers are splendidly in evidence. Southwell's fresh examination of the tensions within the poem offers new understanding of its power.