ENG 1121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dramatic Monologue
13 Apr 2016
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What strikes me so much in the life of schopenhauer was the doctrine, which he considered his grand discovery and which i have been persuaded of from my boyhood. That the soul is above and behind the intellect, which is merely the servant. 1876 in a letter to mrs. fitzgerald. In a letter to elizabeth barrett: i desire in this life to live and just write certain things which are in me, and so save my soul. The images of browning"s poetry break away from the vision of nature that is characteristic of much of the romantics" work. His work is the beginning of poetry that marks a transition, the beginning of the poetry of the present age. Browning is concerned with personal problems and conflicts for the most part, he writes about problems and aspirations of everyday people. For browning, man is seen as a finite and divided creature and retains his complex humanity.
