Pippa Passes

By Browning, Robert

Book Id: WPLBN0002950688
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File Size: 53.14 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Pippa Passes
Author:	Browning, Robert
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Dramatic Works, Poetry, Play
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Pippa Passes
Historic Publication Date:	1841
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Browning, B. R. (1841). Pippa Passes. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
Pippa Passes was a dramatic piece, as much play as poetry, by Robert Browning published in 1841 as the first volume of his Bells and Pomegranates series. The author described the work as the first of a series of dramatic pieces. His original idea was of a young, innocent girl, moving unblemished through the crime-ridden neighbourhoods of Asolo. The work caused outrage when it was first published, due to the matter-of-fact portrayals of many of the area's more disreputable characters – notably the adulterous Ottima – and for its frankness on sexual matters. Perhaps the most famous passage is below: The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in his Heaven - All's right with the world!

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Poetry, Play