Selected Poems by Robert Browning - ISBN: 9780140437263
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Browning’s best: chilling monologues, lively characters, and timeless verse.

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    352 pages

  • Release Date

    21 September 2000

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Summary

A selection of Browning’s finest works, including the chilling ‘My Last Duchess’ and the popular ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’.

Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform any subject he chose - whether everyday or sublime - into startling memorable verse. In his work he brought to life the personalities of a diverse range of characters, and introduced a new immediacy, colloquial energy and psychological compl…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140437263
ISBN-10:0140437266
Author:Robert Browning, Daniel Karlin
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Edition:1st
Release Date:21 September 2000
Weight:263g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 19mm
Series:Penguin Classics
About The Author

Robert Browning

Robert Browning (1812-1889) attended the newly founded University of London for a year before travelling widely on the Continent in the 1830s and 1840s. After a clandestine courtship, he married Elizabeth Barrett in 1846 and they lived in Italy until her death in 1861. He is one of the most significant and inventive of Victorian poets.

Daniel Karlin is Professor of English at University College, London. He has edited The Penguin Book of Victorian verse.

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