Victorian Poetry 8: More on R. Browning’s ”Development” and then mainly his”Thamuris Marching”

14/02/2023 1h 23min Episodio 196
Victorian Poetry 8: More on R. Browning’s ”Development” and then mainly his”Thamuris Marching”

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Episode Synopsis

We start with a few lines from much later in EBB's Aurora Leigh (and their near explicit critique of Tennyson), then finish discussing "Development" (and its relation to modernity), then look at Pope's translation of the Thamyris passage in Book II of The Iliad, and the surviving fragments of Sophocles's play about him, and then spend the class on "Thamuris Marching," which has Aristophanes describing Sophocles's play in terza rima, and we end with the title of "'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'" the poem to which we'll return next class.

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