Robert Browning -- Theme and Subject

• Art as Prophecy in"Fra Lippo Lippi"
• Setting and Psychology in "Childe Roland"
• themes in Browning's early works
• Browning's heroes
• Self-realization in Browning
• Communication between men and women
• Ideal love
• Browning's theories of art -- and poems about it
• Red-Cotton Nightcap Country in the context of Victorian attitudes toward suicide)
• Body, Soul, God, and Art: Romantic Ideals in Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi"
• Art's Power to Reveal vs. Journalism's Power to Force
• Blues and Punishment: “Fra Lippo Lippi,” “Andrea del Sarto,” “The Heart Knoweth its own Bitterness,” and “Reflection”

Last modified 12 May 2003