“Storia della letteratura inglese. Dal 1870 al 1921” di Franco Marucci: recensione

Review of Volume IV of Franco Marucci’s Storia della letteratura inglese. This massive tome covers the period from 1870 to 1921. The review explores the way Marucci organises the vast amount of material he is dealing with, suggesting that the critic feels a sense of identity with some of the late Victorian writers whose work he is examining, in particular because they too were seeking an interpretative key to the complexities of their own culture. Marucci seems to feel a particular tie with the poet Browning, who “can do no more than obsessively rotate and whirl around the conflict between the eternal and the transient…”