Category: Biographies
On the subject of Browning's work innumerable things have been said and remain to be said; of his life, considered as a narrative of facts, there is little or nothing to say. It was a lucid and public and yet quiet life, which culminated in one great dramatic test of character...
On the subject of Browning's work innumerable things have been said and remain to be said; of his life, considered as a narrative of facts, there is little or nothing to say. It...
8. Chapter 8The great fault of most of the appreciation of Browning lies in the fact that it conceives the moral and artistic value of his work to lie in what is called "the message of Brow...
5. Chapter 5Browning's confidences, what there were of them, immediately after his wife's death were given to several women-friends; all his life, indeed, he was chiefly intimate with women...
6. Chapter 6Mr. William Sharp, in his _Life_ of Browning, quotes the remarks of another critic to the following effect: "The poet's processes of thought are scientific in their precision an...
3. Chapter 3Robert Browning had his faults, and the general direction of those faults has been previously suggested. The chief of his faults, a certain uncontrollable brutality of speech an...
4. Chapter 4The married pair went to Pisa in 1846, and moved soon afterwards to Florence. Of the life of the Brownings in Italy there is much perhaps to be said in the way of description an...
2. Chapter 2In 1840 _Sordello_ was published. Its reception by the great majority of readers, including some of the ablest men of the time, was a reception of a kind probably unknown in the...
7. Chapter 7When we have once realised the great conception of the plan of _The Ring and the Book_, the studying of a single matter from nine different stand-points, it becomes exceedingly...