Browning

First published in 1972. Browning was a keen observer and dramatic recorder of nineteenth-century European culture; his poetry reflects a wide range of intellectual, religious and artistic issues of his day. Roy E. Gridley shows here that during the six decades of Browning's active writing career (1832-89), his poetry is a record and an interpretation of the changing modes of thought, feeling and expression of nineteenth-century life.

Roy E. Gridley

Note on the Text; 1. A Context for Browning's Early Life: 1812-32 2. The Eighteen-Thirties 3. The Eighteen-Forties 4. The Eighteen-Fifties 5. The Eighteen-Sixties: I 6. The Eighteen- Sixties: II 7. The Eighteen-Seventies and Eighties 8. Browning among the Modern Poets; Notes; Bibliography; Index