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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Robert Browning, by G. K. Chesterton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Robert Browning Author: G. K. Chesterton Release Date: August 31, 2004 [EBook #13342] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROBERT BROWNING *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Victoria Woosley and PG Distributed Proofreaders ROBERT BROWNING BY G.K. CHESTERTON CONTENTS CHAPTER I BROWNING IN EARLY LIFE 1 CHAPTER II EARLY WORKS 34 CHAPTER III BROWNING AND HIS MARRIAGE 55 CHAPTER IV BROWNING IN ITALY 81 CHAPTER V BROWNING IN LATER LIFE 105 CHAPTER VI BROWNING AS A LITERARY ARTIST 133 CHAPTER VII "THE RING AND THE BOOK" 160 CHAPTER VIII THE PHILOSOPHY OF BROWNING 177 INDEX 203 ROBERT BROWNING CHAPTER I BROWNING IN EARLY LIFE 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 test of character, and then fell back again into this union of quietude and publicity. And yet, in spite of this, it is a great deal more difficult to speak finally about his life than about his work. His work has the mystery which belongs to the complex; his life the much greater mystery which belongs to the simple. He was clever enough to understand his own poetry; and if he understood it, we can understand it. But he was also entirely unconscious and impulsive, and he was never clever enough to understand his own character; consequently we may be excused if that part of him which was hidden from him is partly hidden from us. The subtle man is always immeasurably easier to understand than the natural man; for the subtle man keeps a diary of his moods, he practises the art of self-analysis and self-revelation, and can tell us
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