• ISBN13: 9788171569182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: March 6, 2001
• Pages: 334
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 410 grams

The Poetry of Robert Browning is a major study of Browning and his art. It marks an improvement over the earlier studies of Browning’s poetry in that its author Stopford A. Brooke provides abundant information on the Victorian Age with Browning as the focal point. Each chapter of the book constitutes an elaborate and methodical analysis of Browning and his works, often from a historical perspective. The contents of the book have been so arranged as to bring out the thematic coherence and continuity of development in Browning’s art. The themes studied include: nature, human life, art, womanhood, passion of love and renaissance.
An interesting feature of the book is that a separate chapter has been devoted to Browning’s dramas. Throughout the book the author endeavours to draw comparison between Browning and his contemporaries and predecessors such as Tennyson and Sordello. The comparative and contrastive method throws much light on the continued relevance and universality of Browning.
This book is a comprehensive and well-argued study of Browning’s poetical works. It will be of special use to teachers and students apart from scholars and researchers interested in Browning’s poetry.

Stopford A. Brooke is an erudite scholar and researcher who contributed immensely to the critical tradition of British literature. His critical works are considered seminal in that they contain original and deep insights. The Poetry of Robert Browning holds testimony to Brooke’s method of analysis and exposition of a complex writer like Browning.
Apart from this book, Brooke has authored a full-length study of Browning entitled, Impressions of Browning and his Art. He also published several articles on Browning in such well known periodicals as The New England Magazine and The Century. Another Victorian poet he has an abiding interest in is Lord Tennyson. His critical work, Tennyson: His Art and Relation to Modern Life is regarded as a signal contribution to the Tennyson scholarship.