The Life of Robert Browning: A Critical BiographyISBN: 978-0-631-20093-2
Paperback
304 pages
April 1996, Wiley-Blackwell
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"Only a handful of scholars could have written this book, and it is surely now the best introduction to the entirely of Browning's career... Ryals's mastery of his subject is... unrivalled... to be recommended as the best first book to read on Browning." Choice
"This biography, more successfully than any that has preceded it, achieves a fine balance between its sensitive commentary on the poet's life and the poet's art, and it further illuminates these subjects by locating them in a rich and wide-ranging cultural and historical context."Nineteenth-Century Literature.
"... a thoroughly admirable contribution - an introduction for the general reader, at a modest price, of the corpus fo Browning, described and summarized and commented upon in such a way as to provoke reading of the texts to verify the riches the critic announces he has found" John Stasny, Victorian Poetry.
"Clyde de L. Ryals has published two distinguished studies of
Browning's works, and his knowledge of the field is second to none.
... Eminently readable, Ryal's study covers a huge amount of
ground, offeringclear and reliable summaries of the poet's works
and days. This kind of book is obviously much more useful to the
current generation of students than the earlier handbooks compiled
by Alexandra Orr and William." Victorian Studies