August 20, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and the Verbal in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi” Part Five
This is Part Five of a series. Read parts one, two, three, and four. Ultimately, the brawl between the seen and the said that goes on in the poem causes […]
August 16, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and Verbal in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi” Part Four
This is Part Four of a series. Read parts one, two, and three. In one example of this simultaneously spatially and temporally mobile impulse, Lippi depicts a future image of […]
August 13, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and Verbal in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi” Part Three
This is the third post in a series. Read parts one and two. We can see Browning leaping back-and-forth in another instance of the poem’s ongoing battle between word and […]
August 7, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and Verbal in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi” Part Two
This is Part Two. You can read Part One here. Any marriage of the visual and verbal in poetry contains its share of arguments. This struggle between the painted and […]
July 31, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and Verbal in Robert Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi”
A paradigmatic ekphrastic poem, such as W.H. Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts, with its central description of how the everyday life of the painting goes on as usual in Breughel’s […]
February 25, 2012
Short Takes: “Truth Broken into Prismatic Hues”
An argument for creativity as an inherent human feature—not an accident of the universe or luck, but something to be cultivated. Is there a line between “nonfiction writer” and “essayist”? […]