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 nineteenth-century figures: John Stuart Mill, William Charles Macready, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 252
Edition: 2001
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 04 May 2001
ISBN 10: 0333643372
ISBN 13: 9780333643372