Talk:Robert Browning

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This article needs some love! Too many hyperlinks and what's the reference to "Sordello" that mysteriously pops up in the middle. And what happened to the Wilde/quote link below?

Why the "only a clerk"? -- Charles Lamb was a literary guy, despite being only a clerk. -- Marj Tiefert, Tuesday, July 9, 2002

A relatively low wage compared to "skilled professions" (i.e professors) -- Imran

I hope nobody minds me going through and correcting all this stuff, some of it was wildly erroneous and the full text of the Oscar Wilde quote was imho entirely unnecessary - I've moved that to a link, changed the list of works to a complete and correct one (will be adding links to individual volumes later), and started revising the biography. Fosse8 17:43, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Sections

I added some section headers to break up this article into more digestible pieces and to provide a table of contents. If any Browning experts feel it might be divided or labelled differently, please feel free (as always!) to change things. — Jeff Q (talk) 02:18, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of works

Would it be practical to provide a concise list of Browning's works? That's actually what I had originally come to this article to find. I suspect others would find it useful, too. — Jeff Q (talk) 02:20, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • I added one of those a long time back with the intention of providing short articles on each of his collections and long poems; I went away for a long time and now the article is (to my mind) much more of a mess. Looking at it, it appears someone vandalised the article and the restoration was a bit patchy. I can't tell if I'm looking at it from a biased perspective but I'd much prefer the text from the old version with the new section headings... I've added the list of works back in from an old edit, and will go through & thoroughly tidy this up over the coming months. Fosse8 03:15, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • If the list is "complete" why is it missing works mentioned in the body of the article? Where is Bishop Blougram, etc?
  • The list is one of Browning's published volumes. "Bishop Blougram's Apology" is an individual poem in Dramatis Personae. Actually, the list looks fine to me, but people may be misled by the fact that some famous, individual poems are listed inset beneath the volume title and others are not. Things are only complicated by the fact that the titles of some volumes are also the titles of the poems that they contain (e.g. Fifine at the Fair, Ferishtah's Fancies, The Ring and The Book and several others), whereas other volumes contain many shorter poems. It would be impractical in this article to give a complete list of individual poems, but someone could create a separate page and link to it if they've got the time. --Sordel 09:00, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
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