He planned, Mr Gosse tells us, “a series of monodramatic epics, narratives of the life of typical souls.” ❋ Dowden, Edward (1904)
In another sense, the major portion of Browning's life-work is, collectively, one monodramatic “epic.” ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)
In a sense he has fulfilled this early dream: at any rate we have a unique series of monodramatic poems, illustrative of typical souls. ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)
The story fascinated Browning, who, having in this book and elsewhere mastered all the details, conceived the idea of writing the history of the crime in a series of monodramatic revelations on the part of the individuals more or less directly concerned. ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)
From this source, and from what the poet himself said at various times and in various ways, we know that just about the time Balzac, after years of apparently waste labour, was beginning to forecast the Titanic range of the _Comédie Humaine_, Browning planned "a series of monodramatic epics, narratives of the life of typical souls -- a gigantic scheme at which a Victor Hugo or a Lope de Vega would start back aghast." ❋ William Sharp (1880)
In another sense, the major portion of Browning's life-work is, collectively, one monodramatic ❋ William Sharp (1880)
Many of these were first given at Dibdin's monodramatic entertainments at the Sans Souci Theatre in London, or as parts of his musical dramas. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
Spain monodramatic:: START OF FANGIRL MOMENT:: RT @mikebailey01: ❋ Unknown (2009)
“Death of Harold”; his poems, written when twelve years old, shown to Miss Flower; the Rev. W.J. Fox's criticisms on them; he comes across Shelley's “Daemon of the World”; Mrs. Browning procures Shelley's poems, also those of Keats, for her son; the perusal of these volumes proves an important event in his poetic development; he leaves school when fourteen years old, and studies at home under a tutor; attends a few lectures at University College, 1829-30; chooses his career, at the age of twenty; earliest record of his utterances concerning his youthful life printed in Century Magazine, 1881; he plans a series of monodramatic epics; Browning's life-work, collectively one monodramatic “epic”; Shakspere's and Browning's methods compared; ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)
Shelley's "Dæmon of the World"; Mrs. Browning procures Shelley's poems, also those of Keats, for her son; the perusal of these volumes proves an important event in his poetic development; he leaves school when fourteen years old, and studies at home under a tutor; attends a few lectures at University College, 1829-30; chooses his career, at the age of twenty; earliest record of his utterances concerning his youthful life printed in _Century Magazine_, 1881; he plans a series of monodramatic epics; Browning's life-work, collectively one monodramatic ❋ William Sharp (1880)
From this source, and from what the poet himself said at various times and in various ways, we know that just about the time Balzac, after years of apparently waste labour, was beginning to forecast the Titanic range of the Comedie Humaine, Browning planned “a series of monodramatic epics, narratives of the life of typical souls ” a gigantic scheme at which a Victor Hugo or a Lope de Vega would start back aghast.” ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)
This piece and "Holy Cross Day" are dramatic, or monodramatic, grotesques; and in their apprehension of this trait of the mediaeval mind are on a par with Hugo's "Pas d'armes du ❋ Unknown (1886)
