Volume 30, Number 14 · September 29, 1983
The Two Robert Brownings
By Irvin Ehrenpreis
Robert Browning: A Life Within Life
by Donald Thomas
Viking, 334 pp., $18.75
In his new biography of Browning, Donald Thomas takes us no great distance into the nature of the poet or his work. Yet the connection between the private man and the poems will tantalize anyone who examines Browning's career. At the center of the dramatic monologues is usually a revelation of character. The protagonist may not realize what he is disclosing, but the poet lets him deliver facts that keep startling us while the personality that emerges remains stable.
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