“Grow Old Along With Me”: Robert Browning’s Conception of Jewish Old Age
Robert Browning often explored the concepts of old age and dying in his poems, and surprisingly enough, some of these most striking poems use Hebraic sources as intertexts. This article will explore Robert Browning’s idea of old age as it is conveyed in “Rabbi Ben Ezra,” “Pisgah Sights,” and “Jochan...
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Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-05-01
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Series: | SAGE Open |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020919534 |