Poetry Of Robert Browning

A man of versatile genius, Robert Browning (1812-89) was one of the most significant literary figures of Victorian Age. Although written his first book of poetry at the age of twelve, Browning earned public recognition with Dramatis Personae (1864) and The Ring and the Book (1868-9). Unlike his contemporaries, Browing delighted in the idiom of ordinary speech and in the peculiarities of minds and objects. He preferred dramatic monologue and chose characters from history or invented them in special predicaments and made them think aloud so as to display their distinctive mentalities.
About Author :
Stopford A. Brooke is an erudite scholar and researcher who cotnributed immensely to the cirtical tradition of British literature. His critical works are considered seminal in that they contain original and deep insights. The Poetry of Robert Browning holds testimony to Brooke's method of analysis and exposition of a complex writer like Browing.
Contents :
Browing and Tennyson The Treatment of nature-1 The Treatment of Nature-2 Browning's Theory of Human Life-Pauline and Paracelsus The Poet of Art Sordello Browing and Sordello The Drama Poems of the Passion of Love The Passions other than Love Imaginative Representations Imaginative Representations-Renaissance Womanhood in Browing-I Womanhood in Browing-II Balaustion The Ring and the Book Later Poems The Last Poems Index