robert browning
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A man’s reach should exceed his grasp: Browning
Poor Andrea del Sarto. A successful Italian painter who was overshadowed by his contemporaries, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. We admire the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael while Andrea del Sarto is almost forgotten. Yet that is what makes him more like most of us. We may not be remembered outside our own… Read more
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Must a poem have a meaning?
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,Or what’s a heaven for?” I love those lines by Robert Browning though I am not quite sure what he means. They sound grand in their limitless ambition. The irony is the speaker is the painter Andrea Del Sarto who has no illusions left. He knows his… Read more
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