Robert Browning

Robert Browning - Paperback

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Robert Browning

Robert Browning - Paperback

by G. K. Chesterton
$38.81
Sale price  $38.81 Regular price 

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""Robert Browning"" is a biography of the famous Victorian poet written by the renowned author and critic G.K. Chesterton. The book covers Browning's life and works, from his early years in London to his later years as a celebrated poet. Chesterton explores Browning's unique style and approach to poetry, as well as his personal life and relationships with other writers and artists of his time. The book also delves into Browning's religious beliefs and his views on society and politics. With his characteristic wit and insight, Chesterton offers a fascinating portrait of one of the most important poets of the Victorian era.1903. A volume in the English Men of Letters series. On the subject of Browning's work innumerable things have been said and remain to be said; of his life, considered as a narrative of facts, there is little or nothing to say. It was a lucid and public and yet quiet life, which culminated in one great dramatic tests of character and then fell back against into this union of quietude and publicity. The life of Robert Browning, who combines the greatest brain with the most simple temperament known in our annals, would go on forever if we did not decide to summarize it in the very brief and simple narrative found in this volume.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

ISBN9780766172357
Author G. K. Chesterton
PublisherKessinger Publishing
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2003
LanguageENG- English
Pages216
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories---first carefully turning them inside out." Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognized the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both Progressivism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius." Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.

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