Browning and Dogma Seven Lectures on Browning's Attitude Towards Dogmatic Religion

"Browning and Dogma" by Ethel M. Naish is a collection of seven lectures that explore the religious ideas present in Robert Browning's poetry. The book looks at how Browning's poems deal with big questions about God, right and wrong, and what it means to be alive. The first lecture starts by giving a general idea of Browning's religious views as they appear in his poems, getting ready to go deeper into how he felt about faith and uncertainty. The opening pages explain that Browning's poetry wrestles with important questions about faith while facing the confusing ideas of the period. This book also explains that both his belief that the soul lives on and how he disagreed with the doubts of other poets of the time, and it studies Browning's poem "Caliban upon Setebos," using Caliban's simple yet complicated idea of God to begin to grasp how Browning's religious ideas changed. Naish's first lecture lays the foundation for conversations with the divine and then opens the path for later lectures that examine different stories showing Browning's quest for purpose inside dogmatic religion.