Browning's Sordello and the Aesthetics of Difficulty

Download or read book Browning's Sordello and the Aesthetics of Difficulty written by David E. Latané and published by English Literary Studies. This book was released on 1987 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Browning's Sordello has often been regarded as teh ultimate difficult poem, at least until its twentieth-century successors. It is also usually seen as an anomalous freak of literary history. Browning's early masterwork can be understood best, however, as a mature extension of the poetics of its time, as well as a late-Romantic attempt to write an epical work which must be read both willfully and imaginatively.