Fralippolippi: Browning's Reflections on life and Art

Abstract

Fhc stall' q/i11kllcd11t1! m1io.ril)' in the lll'l'!l(Jjinl (£'111!11J ir /h(I/ thm• i.r 110 publichy accepted moral and emotional Truth, there are onh perspectives towards it ¬those partial meanings which individuals may get a glimpse of at particular moments but which, formulated as idms for other moments and people, heco111t pmhlt111attca/. The empiricism in Robert Browning's dramatic monologne, 'Ira Lippo Lippi, as demonstrated by its diseq11ilih1i11111 hd1JJet'11 ._r)'111puth)' <111dj11r(ge111mt, ir (/ .r{gn that it imitates not life but a particular perspective towards life, somebody's experience of it. Rolm1 13ro1v11i,1/, gi11e.r 11.r hi.r OJ/JI/ 11enio11 q/ Tmth, aho11/ !tjif and ,111, as he sal/J it, in one o/ his most delightful and re1•1:ali1(g dm111lllir mo110/o_g11es, 'Fm Lippo Lippi'. [,/,''e find in Browning's poetry what our age most needs, faith which is adequate and co11si.rtl'III with 011r i111ellect11al mlt,m, and which indicates the directio11 it1 1vhid1 JJJI' t1111st look for the 1dig,io11 q/ theji1t11re, Thir paptr explort.r !ht pmpose q/ 1(/i- 011 this earth in the light of Browning's reflections on life and art in 'Ira Lippo Lippi'.