Chesterton argues that Browning’s life was simple and his poetry complex, and sets out to show why both are worth understanding. He covers the early works, the marriage to Elizabeth Barrett and the years in Italy, then turns to Browning as an artist and to The Ring and the Book.
Chesterton’s 1903 book is as much about how to read poetry as about Browning, and full of his paradoxes. Download the free EPUB.