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Article: Robert Browning.
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Recent months have brought forth various studies of Robert Browning, ranging from pleasing and careful popularization; to examinations of language, tropes, and gender; to notes and reference works. Those texts aimed at the general reader vary widely in quality, while treatments aimed at a more scholarly audience occasionally caused me to wonder whether their authors were, indeed, reading the same poems.
To begin with the pleasing. Martin Garrett has once again provided a bio-critical study of the Brownings, to accompany his Interviews and Recollections and his A Browning Chronology (both from Macmillan, 2000, and reviewed here in that year). Garrett's Elizabeth ...