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Philip Hobsbaum. 9 The Rise of the Dramatic Monologue The dramatic monologue has been a central form of English poetry for over 140 years . For better or worse , it is the dominant form now . Yet its antecedents are lost in conjecture ...
Philip Hobsbaum. 9 The Rise of the Dramatic Monologue The dramatic monologue has been a central form of English poetry for over 140 years . For better or worse , it is the dominant form now . Yet its antecedents are lost in conjecture ...
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... monologue . A recollection in tranquillity would hardly fill the bill , especially if the tranquillity was that of the poet rather than that of the speaker . What we would miss would be the presence of a dramatic situation . Three ...
... monologue . A recollection in tranquillity would hardly fill the bill , especially if the tranquillity was that of the poet rather than that of the speaker . What we would miss would be the presence of a dramatic situation . Three ...
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... monologue's emergence as the vehicle of great poetry . But the fact that Browning and Tennyson were able to develop the monologue at the same time , and independently of one another , shows that it must have been immanent in the ...
... monologue's emergence as the vehicle of great poetry . But the fact that Browning and Tennyson were able to develop the monologue at the same time , and independently of one another , shows that it must have been immanent in the ...
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Piers Plowman through Modern Eyes I | 1 |
Experimentalist Extraordinary | 30 |
Elizabethan Poetry | 69 |
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