Public domain photo of Robert Browning, by Julia Margaret Cameron
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
A selective list of online literary criticism for the nineteenth-century Victorian poet Robert Browning, with links to reliable biographical and introductory material and signed, peer-reviewed, and scholarly literary criticism.
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Introduction & Literary Criticism
The Victorian Web has essays on Robert Browning's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background.
A brief biography of Robert Browning from publisher Gale.
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. "I Hear America Singing," PBS. Introduction to the poets, and audio of singers performing their poems.
Finlayson, Iain. A review of Browning: A Private Life. Reviewer Richard Whittington-Egan remarks, "the real continuing interest in Browning revolves about the untangling of the complex of theologico-philosophical notions that fizzed in his brain." Contemporary Review, Sept. 2004.
Garrett, Martin. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections (Palgrave Macmillan 2000). Publisher's blurb.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology (Palgrave Macmillan 1999). Publisher's blurb.
Litzinger, Boyd and Donald Smalley, eds. Browning: the Critical Heritage (Routledge 1968, 2000). Reprints critical responses to Robert Browning's poetry from his contemporaries and later. From Google Books.
Roberts, Adam. "Robert Browning," Literary Encyclopedia. Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd. An introduction to EBB, from a database that provides signed literary criticism by experts in their field, and is available to individuals for a reasonably-priced subscription.
Schad, John. "Victorians in Theory." Joseph Bristow reviews Victorians in Theory: From Derrida to Browning (Manchester UP 1999). Comparative Literature, 2001.
Bibliography & Web Sites
Web site for the Armstrong Browning Library, at Baylor U, dedicated to the Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. The site includes access to "The Brownings: A Research Guide," a comprehensive online research guide to all known Browning-related material.
The New York Browning Society.
A brief note on Volume 15 (2007) of The complete works of Robert Browning with variant readings & annotations, eds. Allan C. Dooley and David Ewbank, from Ohio UP. "As part of a projected 17-volume set presenting all the known writings of Browning (1812-1889), this volume features works from the later years of the English poet's life, when he focused on such themes as love, desire, faith, classical and British colonial history, and Middle Eastern tales that were in vogue then."
A brief note on The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Volume IX The Ring and the Book. Books IX-XII (2004) eds. Stefan Hawlin and T. A. J. Burnett, from Clarendon Press, Oxford. "This ninth volume in what has become the definitive edition of Browning's works brings the poet's famous poem to its conclusion."
A guide to research resources from the Victoria discussion list for Victorian Studies.
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