Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Paperback
No. of Pages: 100

Robert Browning is one of the greatest, as well as one of the oddest of English poets. John Lucas’ sharply-focused study, while surveying all of the non-dramatic work, pays especial attention to key poems of the two most original and influential books of Browning’s long career – Men and Women and Dramatis Personae.

With its psychological insights, feminist sympathies, questioning of war and ‘public faces’, Browning’s work retains its contemporary interest.

John Lucas is Professor Emeritus of English at the Universities of Loughborough and Nottingham Trent. His critical and scholarly books include studies of Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Arnold Bennett. A translator of Egil’s Saga he is also a well-known poet, whose most recent work is A World Perhaps – New and Selected Poems (2002). Since 1994 he has been the publisher of Shoestring Press.