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Facts and Fancies*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Philip Drew
Philip Drew
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
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Extract

William Irvine and Park Honan, whose biography of Browning is the weightier of the books before me, have the first qualification for those who venture into this field—an unquestioning confidence that an extended account of Browning's life will be of interest and value. Before I examine the grounds for this confidence, it is right to acknowledge that there will be very many readers, especially of this publication, who share the authors' initial assumption, and to give for the benefit of these readers an account of what they will find in the book.

Type
Research Article
Information
Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 3 , Spring 1975 , pp. 131 - 153
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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References

* The following books are reviewed in this essay: (1) William Irvine and Park Honan, The Book, the Ring and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. pp. xi + 607. $15.00. (2) Ian Jack, Browning's Major Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. pp. xiv + 308. £5.40 ($17.50).