Robert Browning
Subtitle: a literary life
By: Sarah Wood.
Series: Literary lives; Literary lives (Palgrave (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Robert Browning both denied and affirmed the value of biography for an understanding of literature. This book narrates the development of his controversial creative life through responses to his work by five key 19th-century figures: John Stuart Mill, William Charles Macready, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and Matthew Arnold. It also relates Browning's sense of literary vocation to Victorian publishing.

Browning emerges as a writer vividly engaged with contemporary assumptions, yet deeply aware of the unaccountability of writing."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-224) and index.