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• B79:2 “Desiderata for Browning Scholarship.” SBHC, 7 (Spring 1979), 88. ¶ Three items.Google Scholar

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• B79:6Ference, Mary Lou. “The Library of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Preliminary Study.” DAI, 40 (1979), 2071A (Univ. of Maryland). ¶ Checklist is divided into three parts: books owned by Ebb, Rb, and Robert Browning, Sr.; books owned by Pen Browning; books owned by Sarianna Browning.Google Scholar

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• B79:14 “Original Manuscripts of Sonnets Added.” Armstrong Browning Library Newsletter, No. 21 (Fall 1979), p. 1. ¶ Reports acquisition of an Ebb notebook which includes 10 unpublished poems, one holograph of Sonnets from the Portuguese, and other manuscripts and letters from the Houghton collection.Google Scholar

• B79:15 “Research in Progress.” SBHC, 7 (Spring 1979), 87–88. ¶ Twelve items.Google Scholar

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• C79:1Adamson, S. M. “Seven Footnotes on ‘A Grammarian's Funeral.’” BSN, 9 (12 1979), 6–8. ¶ Explications of lines.Google Scholar

• C79:2Aiken, Susan Hardy. “‘Hy, Zy, Hine’ and Browning's Medieval Sources for ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister.’” VP, 17 (Winter 1979), 377–83.¶ Supports Gordon Pitts's theory that the mysterious words allude to the Mass of the Ass by discovering a Camberwell author who described the ceremony and its incantations.Google Scholar

• C79:3Anderson, Vincent Paul. “Reaction to Religious Elements in the Poetry of Robert Browning: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography.” DAI (1979), 2069 A (Loyola Univ. of Chicago). ¶ The introduction divides into four time periods the reactions evoked by the religious implications of Rb's poetry.Google Scholar

• C79:4Austen, Kay. “Pompilia: ‘Saint and Martyr Both.’” VP, 17 (Winter 1979), 287–301. ¶ Pompilia, who fulfills the Catholic Church's requirement for sainthood, is the central character of The Ring and the Book.Google Scholar

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• C79:6Bloom, Harold, and Adrienne, Munich, eds. Robert Browning: A Collection of Critical Essays. (Twentieth-Century Views.) Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979. pp. 207. ¶ Harold Bloom, “Reading Browning” (pp. 1–12): “Browning teaches his readers not only the sublime necessities of defense against his poems' self-interpretations, but also a healthy suspicion that poet and reader alike are rhetorical systems of many selves, rather than any single or separate self” (p. 2). George M. Ridenour, “Four Modes in the Poetry of Robert Browning” (pp. 13–28): Rb's attempts to unify elements of reality as he perceived them may be broken down into at least four major types: personal, typical, mythic, and analytic. Ann Wordsworth, “Browning's Anxious Gaze” (pp. 28–38) [see C79:66]. Leslie Brisman, “Back to the First of All: “‘By the Fireside’ and Browning's Romantic Origins” (pp. 37–58): the poem “invites inquiry about the abstract idea of the ‘infinite moment,’ and … about the personality of all the great revelatory moments in the dramatic monologue” (p. 39). Loy D. Martin, “The Inside of Time” (pp. 59–78): The interaction between language and literary form can be traced in the dramatic monologue. John Killham, “Browning's ‘Modernity’: The Ring and the Book and Relativism” (pp. 79–99) [see C69:2]. John Hollander, “Robert Browning: The Music of Music” (pp. 100–22): Rb's active engagement with the flow of structured sound, his understanding of “music's meaning.” Harold Bloom, “Good Moments and Ruined Quests” (pp. 123–47) [see C77:ll]. Robert Langbaum, “Browning and the Question of Myth” (pp. 148–66) [see C66:31, C70:39]. Adrienne Munich, “Troops of Shadows: Browning's Types” (pp. 167–87): “By reading Pauline and the Parleyings as a pair enclosing the major works, it becomes clear that Browning represented himself by using a typological framework” (p. 168). Richard Howard, “November, 1889” (pp. 188–200): A dramatic monologue in which RB speaks. With chronology and bibliography.Google Scholar

• C79:7Blythe, Hal, and Charlie, Sweet. “Browning's Ferrara: The Man Who Would Be Neptune.” SBHC, 7 (Fall 1979), 17–20. ¶ The Duke unconsciously reveals that his problem of sexual impotence leads him to blame his last Duchess for his lack of power.Google Scholar

• C79:8Bright, Michael. “A Reconsideration of A. W.N.Pugin's Architectural Theories.” VS, 22 (Winter 1979), 151–72. ¶ Bishop Blougram's disparaging remarks about Pugin's “half-baked” architecture, while serving RB'S purpose, misrepresent the integrity of the architect's theories.Google Scholar

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• C79:12Brugière, Bernard. L'Univers Imaginaire de Robert Browning. Paris: Editions Klincksieck, 1979, pp. 510. ¶ A study of Rb's entire works, blending a psychoanalytic and semiotic critical perspective. In French.Google Scholar

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• C79:15Cain, Jonizo. “A Herakles in the House of Mourning: The Late Long Poetry of Robert Browning.” DAI, 40 (1979), 1479A (Rice Univ.). ¶ Herakles as madman or savior serves as a model for the protagonist in Rb's late long works.Google Scholar

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• C79:20Diehl, Joanne Feit, “‘Come Slowly–Eden’: An Exploration of Woman Poets and Their Muse.” Signs, 3 (Spring 1978), 572–87. ¶ Ebb's awareness of influence and how she dealt with the tradition of the muse can be seen in “A Musical Instrument,” where the poet expresses resentment of Pan, a brutish, masculine image of the creator as destroyer, as representative of the male poet/muse (pp. 584–85).Google Scholar

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• C79:26Gruber, William. “Temporal Perspectives in Robert Browning's ‘A Death in the Desert.’” VP, 17 (Winter 1979), 329–42. ¶ By a complex manipulation of temporal perspectives, unusual in the dramatic monologue form, RB blocks rationalist inquiry of the Christian myth the poem seeks to defend.Google Scholar

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• C79:38McAleer, Edward. The Brownings of Casa Guidi. New York: Browning Institute, 1979. pp. viii + 104. ¶ A biographical “guidebook to Casa Guidi”; the Brownings are presented as “a man and woman, a husband and wife, a father and mother” (p. vii). ¶ Rev. by Mary F. Lindsley, “Magic Casements,” Seal Beach [Calif.] Journal, 9 Jan. 1980, p. 5; Claire McGlinchee, America, 8 Mar. 1980, p. 196; Robert Taylor, Boston Globe, 19 Mar. 1980, p. 69; Jack Herring, BSN, 10 (April 1980), 12; Choice, 17 (May 1980), 389; Nathaniel I. Hart, SBHC, 8 (Spring 1980), 75–77; MargaretD. Sizemore, Birmingham News, 26 Oct. 1980, p. 8E; Book Review Digest (October 1980), p. 131;Google Scholar

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• C79:40Meredith, Michael. “Browning and the Prince of Publishers.” BIS, 7(1979), 1–20. ¶ George Smith of Smith, Elder as friend and publisher of Rb for the last thirty years of the poet's life.Google Scholar

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• C79:42Parins, Marylyn J. “Browning's ‘Christina’: The Woman, the Look, and the Speaker.” SBHC, 7 (Spring 1979), 24–33. ¶ The speaker, a normal male egoist, over-interprets the Queen's look, dazzled as he is by her beauty and practiced coquetry.Google Scholar

• C79:43Passarella, Lee. “A Biblical Allusion in Fifine at the Fair.” SBHC 7 (Spring 1979), 84–85. ¶ An allusion to I Corinthians 15:47–49 indicates that the Don's real prison is self and not flesh.Google Scholar

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• C79:48Robinson, David. “Christopher Pearse Cranch, Robert Browning, and the Problem of ‘Transcendental’ Friendship.” Studies in the American Renaissance (1977), pp. 145–53. ¶ Cranch's poem “Veils” refers to his friendship with Rb.Google Scholar

• C79:49 “Royal Invitation.” Daily Telegraph (London), 2 04 1979, p. 20. ¶ Sponsored by the London Browning Society, an exhibition at the Marylebone Library features a copy of Sonnets from the Portuguese lent by the Queen.Google Scholar

• C79:50Ryals, Clyde de L. “Browning's Paracelsus: ‘A Poem, Not a Drama.’” Genre, 12 (Summer 1979), 203–18. ¶ “In form as in content Paracelsus suggests that life like art is to be regarded as a work of imaginative achievement: we experience only portions and fragments which we must join together with the help of the ‘co-operating fancy’ so as to approach the whole” (p. 218).Google Scholar

• C79:51Sanders, Valerie. “‘The Most Manlike Woman in the Three Kingdoms': Harriet Martineau and the Brownings.” BSN, 9 (12 1979), 9–13. ¶ Martineau's friendship with the Brownings has received too little attention, although she gave “astute literary criticism to both individually, and she discussed with them matters of great immediate interest” (p. 13).Google Scholar

• C79:52Schneider, Mary W. “Browning's Spy.” VP, 17 (Winter 1979), 384–88. ¶ In “How It Strikes a Contemporary,” Rb “chose to describe his poetics in the metaphors of the Cynic tradition, representing the poet as an ideal Cynic, living a simple life, fighting a heroic moral battle, and above all acting as an observer of men” (p. 384).Google Scholar

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• C79:55Solimine, Joseph. “‘A Painful Case’: A Note on Browning's Letters to ‘Dearest Isa.’” SBHC, 7 (Fall 1979), 55–57. ¶ Browning's concern for a lost box reflected his painful losses at the death of his wife.Google Scholar

• C79:56Solimine, Joseph. “A Note on ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister’: On Brownrng's Cultural Policeman.” SBHC 7 (Spring 1979), 85–86. ¶ The speaker is concerned with Brother Lawrence's deviance and his own lack of power over his environment.Google Scholar

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• C79:59Tucker, Paul. “Browning, Pater and the Hellenic Ideal.” BSN, 9 (08 1979), 2–7. ¶ Pater's affinity for Rb as representing a “paradigm of the Hellenic ideal” links RB'S poems with Greek sculpture and a “psychologized version of the Greek divinisation of the human form”(p. 7).Google Scholar

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• C79:61Walker, Stephen C. “‘That Moment’ in “Porphyria's Lover.’” SBHC, 7 (Fall 1979), 70–74. ¶ The intensity of the temporal focus unites the disparate moods and methods of the poem.Google Scholar

• C79:62Watson, Edward A. “A Note on Browning's ‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church.’” SBHC, 7 (Fall 1979), 63–68. ¶ The Bishop worries that his favorite, Anselm, may be Gandolf's son.Google Scholar

• C79:63Wilson, Sara Scott. “The Problems of Perception and Selfhood in Browning, Pater, and Wilde.” DAI, 40 (1979), 880A (Univ. of Kentucky). ¶ RB'S epistemology developed away from a trust in God and one's absolute perception to a highly individual vision of existence, dependent upon action and experience.Google Scholar

• C79:64Woolford, John. “EBB: ‘Woman and Poet.’” BSN, 9 (12 1979), 3–5. ¶ Ebb's ironic attitudes regarding women and poetry connect both the contempt of women and the impotence of the poet in the values of Victorian society.Google Scholar

• C79:65Woolford, John. “Pippa on Film: A Review.” BSN, 9 (04 1979), 22. ¶ D. W.Griffith's Pippa Passes has left for posterity a “Victorian Browning” which emphasizes Christian optimism.Google Scholar

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