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Robert Browning, by G. K. Chesterton
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Title: Robert Browning
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Release Date: August 31, 2004 [EBook #13342]
Language: English
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ROBERT BROWNING
BY
G.K. CHESTERTON
CONTENTS
* CHAPTER I BROWNING IN EARLY LIFE 1
* CHAPTER II EARLY WORKS 34
* CHAPTER III BROWNING AND HIS MARRIAGE 55
* CHAPTER IV BROWNING IN ITALY 81
* CHAPTER V BROWNING IN LATER LIFE 105
* CHAPTER VI BROWNING AS A LITERARY ARTIST 133
* CHAPTER VII "THE RING AND THE BOOK" 160
* CHAPTER VIII THE PHILOSOPHY OF BROWNING 177
INDEX 203
CHAPTER I
BROWNING IN EARLY LIFE
On the subject of Browning's work innumerable things have been said and remain to be said; of his life, considered as a narrative of facts, there is little or nothing to say. It was a lucid and public and yet quiet life, which culminated in one great dramatic test of character, and then fell back again into this union of quietude and publicity. And yet, in spite of this, it is a great deal more difficu