Pastoral Permutations within the Colonial Romance: Robert Browning’s “Waring” and Alfred Domett’s Ranolf and Amohia Helen Blythe 10.4225/03/592279c3c3802 https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Pastoral_Permutations_within_the_Colonial_Romance_Robert_Browning_s_Waring_and_Alfred_Domett_s_Ranolf_and_Amohia/5024750 <p>Inspired to write “Waring” after Alfred Domett immigrated to the fledgling colony of New Zealand in 1841, Robert Browning urges “contrive, contrive / to rouse us, Waring!” (“W” ‘199-201’), picturing his friend alternatively in Moscow, Spain, or secretly still in London creating some great work “without a wink / of sleep” (“W” ‘146-7’). </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p> 2017-05-22 05:40:18 Alfred Domett Robert Browning Paul Alpers Pastoral English poetry New Zealand Literary Studies not elsewhere classified