Robert Browning

While his detractors found his verse to be deliberately obscure, Robert Browning resisted such charges and went on to become one of the most critically acclaimed and popular English poets of the 19th century. Known for his imaginative originality and dramatic power, Browning is one of the most undervalued major poets of the English language, as is evidenced in his enduring works such as My Last Duchess ,Fra Lippo Lippi , Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came , Andrea del Sarto and Caliban Upon Setebos. This volume of essays featuring criticism from both Browning's contemporaries and later critics also includes a chronology, an index, and an introduction from literary critic Harold Bloom.

Bloom's Classic Critical Views presents a selection of the most important enduring literary criticism on the authors most commonly rad in high school and college classes today. The series attempts to place these great authors in the context of their time and to provide criticism that has proved over the years to be the most valuable to reader sand writers.

Selections range from reviews in popular magazines, which demonstrate how a work was received in its own era, to profound essays by some of the strongest critics in the British and American traditions. In addition, each volume contains contributions by a contemporary expert who introduces the most important critical selections, putting them in context and suggesting how they might be used by a student writer to influence his or her own writing.