The Welsh idealist philosopher Henry Jones sets aside Browning’s art to ask whether his ideas hold together as a philosophy of life. He places Browning in English poetry, examines his famous optimism and its apparent contradiction with ethics, studies his treatment of love as the principle of all things, and weighs the idealism behind it against the demands of metaphysical argument.
A classic Victorian study for readers of Browning who want to take his thought as seriously as his verse. Download the free EPUB.