Written by a close friend of the poet with the family’s help, this life sets Browning’s letters within a careful narrative: his grandfather and father, his childhood and discovery of Keats and Shelley, Pauline and Paracelsus, his courtship of Elizabeth Barrett, the Florence years, Men and Women, and the friendships of his later life.
The standard early biography of Browning, valuable for the letters it preserves and for its insider’s view. Download the free EPUB.