Browning Versions
Barbara Everett, 4 August 1983
Robert Browning: A Life within Life
by Donald Thomas.
Weidenfeld, 334 pp., £12.95, August 1982,0 297 78092 1 Show More
by Donald Thomas.
Weidenfeld, 334 pp., £12.95, August 1982,
The Elusive Self in the Poetry of Robert Browning
by Constance Hassett.
Ohio, 186 pp., £17, December 1982,0 8214 0629 9 Show More
by Constance Hassett.
Ohio, 186 pp., £17, December 1982,
The Complete Works of Robert Browning. Vol. V
edited by Roma King.
Ohio, 395 pp., £29.75, July 1981,9780821402207 Show More
edited by Roma King.
Ohio, 395 pp., £29.75, July 1981,
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Vol. I
edited by Ian Jack and Margaret Smith.
Oxford, 543 pp., £45, April 1983,0 19 811893 7 Show More
edited by Ian Jack and Margaret Smith.
Oxford, 543 pp., £45, April 1983,
Robert Browning: The Poems
edited by John Pettigrew and Thomas Collins.
Yale/Penguin, 1191 pp., £26, January 1982,0 300 02675 7 Show More
edited by John Pettigrew and Thomas Collins.
Yale/Penguin, 1191 pp., £26, January 1982,
Robert Browning: ‘The Ring and the Book’
edited by Richard Altick.
Yale/Penguin, 707 pp., £21, May 1981,0 300 02677 3 Show More
edited by Richard Altick.
Yale/Penguin, 707 pp., £21, May 1981,
“... straightforward of the modern lives of Browning. Similarly, it may dictate the title and theme of Constance Hassett’s sensitive study of Browning’s verse as an essentially introspective art, The Elusive Self in the Poetry of Robert Browning. But the thesis seems regrettably mistaken, in that it generates and enforces a wrong notion of ‘poetry’ as ... ”
