Mark Hansard shares another exploration of faith in Victorian literature. See previous posts exploring Browning and faith and Gerard Manley Hopkins and how aesthetic experience can point to God. … [Read more...] about Browning’s “Karshish the Arab Physicianâ€
Robert Browning
Piercing the o’erstretched doubt: Browning’s Apologetic in “A Death in the Desertâ€
Robert Browning, the Victorian poet of the 19th century, is mainly remembered today for his fascinating dramatic monologues like My Last Duchess, and his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who was the more famous poet at the time they married. Browning became a formidable poet in his own right, and is nearly always included in contemporary anthologies of English Literature, as is his wife. … [Read more...] about Piercing the o’erstretched doubt: Browning’s Apologetic in “A Death in the Desertâ€