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Robert Browning

G. K. Chesterton

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There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of his darker poems, and received the following reply: “When that poem was written, two people knew what it meant–God and Robert Browning. And now God only knows what it means.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .He had made the discovery which Byron never made, but which almost every young man does at last make—the thrilling discovery that he is not Robinson Crusoe. Pippa Passes is the greatest poem ever written, with the exception of one or two by Walt Whitman, to express the sentiment of the pure love of humanity. The phrase has unfortunately a false and pedantic sound. The love of humanity is a thing supposed to be professed only by vulgar and officious philanthropists, or by saints of a superhuman detachment and universality. As a matter of fact, love of humanity is the commonest and most natural of the feelings of a fresh nature, and almost every one has felt it alight capriciously upon him when looking at a crowded park or a room full of dancers. The love of those whom we do not know is quite as eternal a sentiment as the love of those whom we do know. In our friends the richness of life is proved to us by what we have gained; in the faces in the street the richness . . . Read More

Community Reviews

Part of me is not very confident about this review: I used this book as my “2 am anxiety cure” - if I woke up in the middle of the night and I started thinking bad things about myself, I would reach for this book. Often I was half asleep within 10 minutes, fantasizing about this wonderful poet I’ve

Siempre resulta agradable leer a Chesterton. Su estilo rebosante de paradojas y buen humor convierte cualquier lectura suya en una bocanada de aire fresco.

En este breve libro se adentra en la semblanza biográfica de Browning, excelente poeta que en castellano apenas está traducido.
Mucho de la poesía

Since I already had Chesterton out, I figured I may as well read another, right? I almost started The Flying Inn, because it seems to be the last of his novels that I haven't read, but I saved that one for later after reading a short description (it's about a futuristic society where the teetotaller

This is a marvelous book that does justice to Robert Browning's huge personality and startlingly modern approach to storytelling, poetry, and epistemology. Like all biographies written by Chesterton, this book tells us at least as much about Chesterton as it tells us about his subject. But, of cours

This book is as much about Chesterton's philosophy of what makes a great poet as it is about the poetry and life of Robert Browning. That said, Robert Browning stands as a model of the great poet for Chesterton. In essence, that poet sees the eternal beauty, the seed of God, of the most sublime thin

This gives the reader a closer look at Robert Browning’s life along with a detailed analysis of some of his work through the thoughtful and highly biased eye of G.K. Chesterton. Eloquent, yet judgmental, at times logical, at others insisting upon a reality the reader neither wants nor cares to be a

I have no idea how accurate this biography is, but it contains some of Chesterton's most engaging prose. As with most of his works, it is less about its putative subject and more about human experience in general. He engages in the kind of snap editorializing which would scandalize the modern schola

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