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Hardy’s Browning: Refashioning the Lyric

Hardy’s Browning: Refashioning the Lyric Hardy’s Browning: Refashioning the Lyric LINDA M. SHIRES stensibly, Robert Browning (1812-1889) and Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Ohave little in common beyond their shared fascination with Percy Shel- ley’s poetry, an idiosyncratic poetic idiom, and mutual attendance at London gatherings of literati in the 1880s. Even though the elder poet’s reactions to Hardy and his writing remain unknown, Robert Browning had a measurable impact on his successor. Hardy may have expressed his extreme frustration in a letter to Edmund Gosse over Browning’s optimism and faith; yet he owned five editions of Browning’s poetry, including one given to him by Florence Henniker in 1894, which he annotated; he also possessed copies of privately- printed criticism by Browning, as well as Pen Browning’s catalogue of the sale of his father’s property; he even saved reviews of Browning’s various volumes. Indeed, he read and re-read Browning’s work for sixty years. Hardy transcribed lines from the poetry into his notebooks and commented on them; he copied excerpts from the Brownings’ letters to each other and, in an essay for The Academy, selected their published letters as one of two favorite books of the year 1899. In a marginal comment in the Browning section of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Victorian Poetry West Virginia University Press

Hardy’s Browning: Refashioning the Lyric

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Victorian Poetry , Volume 50 (4) – Jan 19, 2013
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Hardy’s Browning: Refashioning the Lyric LINDA M. SHIRES stensibly, Robert Browning (1812-1889) and Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Ohave little in common beyond their shared fascination with Percy Shel- ley’s poetry, an idiosyncratic poetic idiom, and mutual attendance at London gatherings of literati in the 1880s. Even though the elder poet’s reactions to Hardy and his writing remain unknown, Robert Browning had a measurable impact on his successor. Hardy may have expressed his extreme frustration in a letter to Edmund Gosse over Browning’s optimism and faith; yet he owned five editions of Browning’s poetry, including one given to him by Florence Henniker in 1894, which he annotated; he also possessed copies of privately- printed criticism by Browning, as well as Pen Browning’s catalogue of the sale of his father’s property; he even saved reviews of Browning’s various volumes. Indeed, he read and re-read Browning’s work for sixty years. Hardy transcribed lines from the poetry into his notebooks and commented on them; he copied excerpts from the Brownings’ letters to each other and, in an essay for The Academy, selected their published letters as one of two favorite books of the year 1899. In a marginal comment in the Browning section of

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