A Source for Brownings Holy-Cross Day
dc.cclicence | CC-BY-NC | en |
dc.contributor.author | Phelan, J. P. | en |
dc.date.acceptance | 2018-06-18 | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-10T08:36:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-10T08:36:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-07-13 | |
dc.description | The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link. | en |
dc.description.abstract | In a letter of 21 October 1886, Robert Browning suggested that his poem ‘Holy-Cross Day’ was inspired in part by the sight of a Hebrew inscription on a church near the Ghetto in Rome. This note identifies the church in question as San Gregorio a Ponte Quattro Capi and assesses the evidence for the reliability of Browning’s claim. It then goes on to examine the significance of the inscription (Isaiah 65:2-3), a fierce criticism of the Jews as a ‘rebellious people’, for the poem as a whole, drawing attention to the role of the Book of Isaiah as a site of contention between Christians and Jews and to the poem’s affinities to proto-Zionist currents of thought in early nineteenth-century Britain. The note concludes by suggesting that recognition of the role of the inscription in the history of the poem adds weight to Browning’s rejection of a ‘conversionist’ reading of the poem in a letter to his friend and supporter F.J. Furnivall. | en |
dc.funder | N/A | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Phelan, J.P. (2018) A Source for Browning's 'Holy-Cross Day', Notes and Queries, 65 (3), pp. 382-386 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjy085 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0029-3970 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2086/16328 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.peerreviewed | Yes | en |
dc.projectid | N/A | en |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en |
dc.researchgroup | Centre for Textual Studies (CTS) | en |
dc.researchinstitute | Institute of English | en |
dc.subject | Robert Browning | en |
dc.subject | Victorian Poetry | en |
dc.subject | Rome | en |
dc.subject | Isaiah | en |
dc.subject | Ghetto | en |
dc.subject | Judaism | en |
dc.subject | Roman Catholicism | en |
dc.title | A Source for Brownings Holy-Cross Day | en |
dc.type | Article | en |