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- Title
Increasing Suspicion about Browning's Grammarian.
- Authors
Bohm, Arnd
- Abstract
The article considers the argument that the titular figure in Robert Browning's "A Grammarian's Funeral" is modeled on Brunetto Latini in Dante's "Purgatorio." The poem sets up a contrast between the sensuous pleasures the grammarian might have enjoyed had he embraced the "erotically charged humanism" of the Renaissance and the anonymous remembrance he receives for his grammatical treatises.
- Subjects
GRAMMARIAN'S Funeral, A (Poem); BROWNING, Robert, 1812-1889; LATINI, Brunetto; RENAISSANCE; HUMANISM; DIVINE Comedy, The (Poem : Dante). Purgatorio; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2006, Vol 44, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2006.0020