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Andre del Sarto Robert Browning Sushma ma'am's lecture notes on 15 December Browning perfected the dramatic monologue: Dramatic monologue is not a soliloquy It is any form of poetry that has a speaker, an implied auditor and an occassion (usually a crisis in the speaker's life) It has one voice containing an intrinsic (implicit) appeal using rhetoric This speaker is a character of depth, psychological complexity, strain Look up: psychography Relevant: high Renaissance, Mannerism Contemporary (of the high Renaissance) (along with Andrea del Sarto) artists: Raphael, Michaelangelo -------------- Browning attempted an Italian context to a Victorian text (explained using the window metaphor - looking at a 13-14 C artist's life through Victorian elements) dynamics of a relationship of love changes after marriage POINTERS: institution of marriage, commitment, contrast between proud artist and beseeching husband Littlest things bring you down Roles in l...

Sushma ma'am's lecture notes: Introduction to Tennyson on 18 Nov 2014 Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 Poet Laureate after Wordsworth Raised to peerage as Lord in 1884 Poetry: In Memoriam, Idylls of the King, Queen Mary, Harold, Akbar's Dream, The Lady of Shalott Simple language; classical, ornate tone - almost musical Tennyson's poetic career analysed in terms of two works: Locksley Hall (written in 1842) - celebrates England's faith in science and commerce Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (written in 1886) - expresses repulsion with science [Science first seen as magic solution to end class barriers but later, it came to be concluded that science made these barriers more rigid] W.R.T. Victorianism other works like The Princess, Idylls of the King and Ulysses look at higher education of women, reflections on life and exploration - "the promise of the journey lies in the uncharted waters" Tennyson called "the poetic exponent of the...