About the Author
The author is Professor of English at Duke University. He has written many books on Victorian literature, including Browning's Later Poetry 1871-1889 (1975), Becoming Browning: The Poems and Plays of Robert Browning 1833-1846 (1983), and A World of Possibilities: (Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature (1900). He is editor of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Walsh Carlyle (1970- ).
Features
* Only book published in the last 50 years that treats chronologically and at length the whole Browning corpus.
* Questions the idea that Browning was an objective, dramatic poet, whose works are distinct and separate from himself.
* Relates Browning the poet to Browning the man.
