On the Art of Writing · Character
Browning
Victorian poet cited for dramatic monologue and style.
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First appearance: lecture vii some principles reaffirmed
Browning shows up with force in Lecture X: English Literature in Our Universities (I). The page is where that presence becomes real.
Quoted for the phrase 'of importance in his day,' used to describe an unknown teacher who may have started the University of Cambridge.
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