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Browning, Robert Marcellus was born on April 1, 1911 in Centerville, Kansas, United States. Son of Marcellus Alonzo and Olive Allytte (Sutton) Browning.
(New light is cast on German intellectual and literary his...)
New light is cast on German intellectual and literary history in the 18th century through this critical analysis of poets usually neglected - unjustly so, in the author's view. The main formal and thematic manifestations of German poetry after the Baroque Age, and before the rise of Sturmund Drang, are presented in a comprehensive form nowhere else available.Through close examination of the poems themselves and through reference to the poets' pronouncements on their intent and poetic theory, Professor Browning gives a sense of their work, its atmosphere, its means of achieving effects, and its intended intellectual and emotional content. Emphasis is on lyric and didactic poetry. Among the poets discussed between Brockes and Klopstock are Haller, Gellert, Gleim, Uz, Gotz, Ewald von Kleist, Gottfried Arnold, Tersteegen, Zinzendorf, and Pyra.Although the author does not shrink from judgements, he pushes no thesis except that German Enlightenment poets deserve serious attention. His conclusion is based on a reexamination of the evidence of the texts not on opinion about the poems as handed down in histories of literature.
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Browning, Robert Marcellus was born on April 1, 1911 in Centerville, Kansas, United States. Son of Marcellus Alonzo and Olive Allytte (Sutton) Browning.
Bachelor of Arts, William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, 1937; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1948.
Instructor modern languages, Princeton University, 1939-1941, 46-49; instructor German, Wake Forest College, 1941-1943; member of faculty, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, since 1949; Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen professor German, Hamilton College, 1973-1979; professor emeritus, Hamilton College, since 1979. Visiting professor U. Colorado, 1962-1963, Indiana U., summer 1964, State University New York at Buffalo, summer 1967, U. Pittsburgh, 1968, Dartmouth College, spring 1969. O'Connor visiting professor Colgate University, 1976-1977.
(New light is cast on German intellectual and literary his...)
Served with Army of the United States, 1944-1946. Member Modern Language Association American (delegate 1971-1974), American Association Teachers German.
Married Helene Marie Ulmer, September 8, 1940.