Reviews for Robert Browning

The average rating for Robert Browning based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-09-12 00:00:00 James Micklewright This is a marvelous book that does justice to Robert Browning's huge personality and startlingly modern approach to storytelling, poetry, and epistemology. Like all biographies written by Chesterton, this book tells us at least as much about Chesterton as it tells us about his subject. But, of course, that fact in no way diminishes the splendor of a Chesterton biography, since Chesterton himself is every bit as interesting as anyone he writes about.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-11-12 00:00:00 Joseph Russell I have no idea how accurate this biography is, but it contains some of Chesterton's most engaging prose. As with most of his works, it is less about its putative subject and more about human experience in general. He engages in the kind of snap editorializing which would scandalize the modern scholarly biographer, but this sort of thing is the reason why we read Chesterton in the first place. Fans of Chesterton will enjoy his liberal use of witty and entertaining aphorisms to sum up the many individuals who passed through Browning's life. The author also spends plenty of time discussing Browning's work. Each time he discussed a poem, his enthusiasm was such that I couldn't resist pausing to read at least a few stanzas of the original poem. If you like Chesterton, you ought to read this book.