In this absorbing biography of Robert Browning, one of the most important Victorian poets, Chesterton examines the poet from his early life to his early poems. He places an emphasis on how Browning’s life informed and influenced his work. Revealing and readable, it is also a prime example of Chesterton’s singular approach to biography and literary criticism.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was was known as the “prince of paradox, ” and a prolific and influential English writer known for the wide-range of his talents, which included mysteries, fantasies, and Christian apologetics. A spirited Catholic polemicist, he was the author of the beloved Father Brown mysteries, as well as of the classic metaphysical thriller, The Man Who Was Thursday.