Brooke begins by setting Browning beside Tennyson, the two poets who shared the heights for sixty years, and then works through the whole achievement: his treatment of nature, his theory of human life in Pauline and Paracelsus, the poet of art, Sordello, the stage dramas, the poems of love and the other passions, and the great imaginative portraits of the Renaissance.
A thorough and sympathetic guide for any reader working through Browning’s often difficult verse. Download the free EPUB.