Dramatic Romances

Robert Browning

Count Gismond places a declaration about truth within a speaker’s account of accusation, combat and rescue. A Grammarian’s Funeral compares modest completed tasks with an ambitious scholarly life through the voice of the mourners. Read the whole poems before making either voice into Browning’s direct advice. Both selected historical anthology passages match this transcription under limited case, punctuation and spacing comparison, with aligned line counters removed for the longer grammarian passage. The editors’ introduction and notes are historical interpretation, not an Edsverb endorsement.

Who it suits

Readers interested in dramatic speakers, judgment and the competing values of accomplishment and ambition.

Reading experience

Demanding; narrative shifts, historical settings, unusual syntax and editorial notes. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.

The edition

Edition

Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, New York, 1898; introduction and notes by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke

Language

English

Publisher

Thomas Y. Crowell and Company

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